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Quotes About Disorder

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.
~ Oliver Stone
There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)
~ Lucretius
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.
~ William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
~ William Butler Yeats
Power is the best shield that the disordered personality can conceive against being revealed as the laughing stock he secretly suspects himself to be.
~ William Donaldson
I did not find, and don't believe today, that Holmes met accepted psychiatric criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia or its even more serious cousin, schizoaffective disorder, at the time of the shootings.
~ William H. Reid
narcissistic personality disorder. This is the one you probably know something about. Its primary characteristics are grandiosity and lack of empathy.
~ William Landay
NPD is not a chemical imbalance. And it is not genetic. It is a complex of behaviors, a deeply ingrained habit.
~ William Landay
All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.
~ David Bohm
When democracy gets old and tired, it demands a little chaos to refresh itself.
~ David Gustafson
today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous
~ David Guterson
Losing even a single night's sleep can precipitate a manic episode in people with bipolar disorder who have otherwise been stable (Malkoff-Schwartz et al. 1998). In parallel, sleep deprivation can improve the mood of a person with depression, although only briefly (Harvey, 2008).
~ David J. Miklowitz
Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.
~ David Lagercrantz
People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.
~ Christine O'Donnell
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
~ Ben Okri
All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.
~ Cassandra Clare
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
~ Hippocrates, Aphorisms
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
~ Raymond Queneau
The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Don't accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
~ Bertolt Brecht