Disorder Quotes

• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, Order, Secret Love

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

  Pierre Bayle

  Diversity, Tolerance, Brotherhood

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• One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

  Polly Toynbee

  Pain, Anxiety Disorder, People

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Atheist, Thinking

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• Battle is an orgy of disorder.

  George S. Patton

  Battle

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Organization, Waiting

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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• Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

  Emily Carr

  Magnificence

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Food, Anxiety, Eating Disorder

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

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• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Denis Diderot

  Happiness, Men, Quality

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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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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• It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

  Hesiod

  Worst Enemy, Literature, Organized

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.75, University of Michigan Press

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• Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

  John Milton

  Light, Order, Voice

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.94

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• There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Struggle, Order

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.15, Vintage

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• Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Strong, Evil, Moral

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• If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

  A. R. Ammons

  Answers, What Is Poetry, Poetry Is

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

  David Brainerd

  Blessed, Hands, Views

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.391

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• It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

  Maurice Wilkins

  Life, Science, Growth

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• Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

  Cyril Connolly

  Memories, Cards, Literature

  "Readings" by Michael Dirda, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 1999.

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• If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

  Courteney Cox

  Eating Disorder, Weight, Diets

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• Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Policemen, Preserves

  "A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement". Book by Cary D. Rostow and Robert D. Davis, p. 18, 2004.

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• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Opposites, Equilibrium

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, World

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• The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Heart, Littles, Likes

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.256, Vintage

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• I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

  Sean Connery

  Fighting, Rooms, Caught

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