Chaos Quotes - Page 27

• American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

  Malcolm X

  Past, Rights, Lynching

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• Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

  Ralph Ellison

  Giving, Patterns, Certainty

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• ...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

  Saul Bellow

  Running, Shows, Whole

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• There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

  Mark Van Doren

  Confusion, Society, World

  Mark Van Doren (1961). “The Happy Critic and Other Essays”

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• The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Social, Producers

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• One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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• Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

  Lewis Mumford

  Doe, May, Patterns

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

  Jonathan Raban

  Cities, Details, Language

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

  M. Scott Peck

  Hard Work, Grace, Growth

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• Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

  I. A. Richards

  Mean, Poetry, Overcoming

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• For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, People, Strive

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• Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Lying, Simplicity, Concealed

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• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Science, Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

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• There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

  Billy Idol

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Liberty, Littles, Too Much

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.44, Routledge

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• Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

  Samora Machel

  Discipline, Relaxation, Laziness

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Relationship, Growing Up, Women

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  Dave Eggers

  Dad, Caring, Mum

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• I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

  Joy Behar

  Stress, Confusion, Creative

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

  Dominic Cooper

  Fun, Regret, Dull

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• There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.

  Robert Cailliau

  Community, Would Be, Alternatives

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• No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Giving, India

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• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Country, Wrath, Spain

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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