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Chaos Quotes

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

We must never become bitter nor should we succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, for if this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

When a country collapses, the chaos reproduces itself in every microcosm.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.