(172 quotes found)
“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
“The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
Richard J. Daley
“My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.”
Joaquin Phoenix
“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
“I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.”
Jim Morrison
“Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.”
Eliphas Levi
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.”
Sid Vicious
“. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .”
William Gaddis
“A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.”
Jean Cocteau
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
Cyril Connolly
