Quotes with disorder

  • War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
  • Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

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  • George S. Patton Battle is an orgy of disorder.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Plato Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Jeremy Collier Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • A. R. Ammons 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
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton 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
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Let nothing be called natural
    In an age of bloody confusion,
    Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
    And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
    Be held unalterable!
    The Exception and the Rule
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • John Ruskin Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Napoleon Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Cyril Connolly Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Lao-Tzu Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Louis de Bernieres The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 256
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Jane Jacobs 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.
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Umberto Eco We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 120
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Gerard De Nerval When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Lao-Tzu When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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