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Quotes About Disorder

At present, the development of industrial society here is marked by extraordinary disorder. Capitalism haphazardly extends its giant branches, puts the economies of nations at the mercy of dominant industries which choke their towns and highways, and destroys the classical forms of the human establishment. At all levels immense problems appear; not just techniques but political forms, motives, a spirit, reasons for living need to be found.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
We have to conceive of a labyrinth of spontaneous steps which revive one another, sometimes cut across one another, and sometimes confirm one another--but across how many detours and what tides of disorder!--and conceive of the whole undertaking as resting upon itself.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.
~ Max Beerbohm
We have arsonists.
~ Melina Marchetta
Like chaos in a glass cage.
~ Melissa Marr
A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.
~ Unknown
Borderline personality disorder is a form of madness made of mood disorders and neurological malfunctions. People with borderline personality heat up fast and have trouble cooling back down. Emotions run high. Impulse and inhibition run together like hot and cold water from a tap. Once the borderline body reaches this place of hypervigilance and despair, every day presents new evidence of apocalypse and new opportunities for hysteria and resignation.
~ Unknown
some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
~ Michael Caine
Human society has been mostly an immoral violent bedlam,
~ Michael Finkel
We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.
~ Unknown
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The fighting had begun. You could make out groups of masked men roaming around with assault rifles and automatic weapons. Windows had been broken, here and there cars were on fire, but the images, shot in the pelting rain, were of such poor quality it was impossible to get a clear idea of who was doing what.
~ Michel Houellebecq
A mass of mixed-up jumbled, unlike objects is clutter. (Chapter 1)
~ Unknown
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
~ Mick Jagger
Whenever information disrupts consciousness by threatening its goals we have a condition of inner disorder, or psychic entropy, a disorganisation of the self that impairs its effectiveness. Prolonged experiences of this kind can weaken the self to the point that it is no longer able to invest attention and pursue its goals.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Whenever information disrupts consciousness by threatening its goals we have a condition of inner disorder, or psychic entropy, a disorganization of the self that impairs its effectiveness. Prolonged experiences of this kind can weaken the self to the point that it is no longer able to invest attention and pursue its goals.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Although a poem arises when there's nothing else to be done, although a poem is a last attempt at order when one can't stand the disorder any longer, although poets are most needed when freedom, vitamin C, communications, laws and hypertension therapy are also most needed, although to be an artist is to fail and art is fidelity to failure, as Samuel Beckett says, a poem is not one of the last but of the first things of man.
~ Unknown
A few days after I left UConn my mom took me to a psychiatrist in Stamford. After talking with me for an hour, smiling kindly and calmly asking me questions, he diagnosed me. "You have an anxiety disorder," he said. "It's a rare and very unpleasant type called 'plateau panic disorder.' Basically you're having panic attacks that don't ever end.
~ Moby
He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.
~ Moisés Naím
That's the trouble with this country, people keep messin' up each other's movies.
~ Molly Ivins
Many people believe that the free market, despite some admitted advantages, is a picture of disorder and chaos. Nothing is "planned," everything is haphazard. Government dictation, on the other hand, seems simple and orderly; decrees are handed down and they are obeyed.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Heterosexuals who act out, verbally or behaviorally, against homosexuals are often accused of being sexist. But, there is a simple but fundamental flaw in this political accusation that is time and time again overlooked. Homosexuality is not a sex. It is not even a gender. It is an abnormal orientation toward sexual intercourse. It is no more than a disorder in choosing whom one will engage in sexual acts with. How can people be sexist against homosexuals? They are not a sex. Sex,
~ Unknown
To sin is to declare war on the universe and to bring disorder to the world.
~ Unknown
Anarchy took its first breath.
~ Nalini Singh