Quotes About Chaos

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Happier than a cat in a Peruvian fish market.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.