49 Quotes on Disorder

• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  Author: John Woolman

• 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.

  Author: Sid Vicious

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

  Author: Paul Valery

• 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.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• 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.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

  Author: Tim Ryan

• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  Author: John Ruskin

• 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.

  Author: Tom Robbins

• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

  Author: Paul Ricoeur

• The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

  Author: Plato

• My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• Battle is an orgy of disorder.

  Author: George Patton

• There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

  Author: William Paley

• 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 toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• 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.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• 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.

  Author: John Milton

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

  Author: Bill Maher

• Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Author: Eliphas Levi

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

  Author: Carl Jung

• 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.

  Author: Jane Jacobs

• I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

  Author: Michael Jackson

• It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

  Author: Jack Irons

• However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

  Author: Robert Huber

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

  Author: Hesiod

• I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

  Author: Patty Hearst

• Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

  Author: Temple Grandin

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

  Author: Denis Diderot

• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Author: Richard Daley

• The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

  Author: Richard Daley

• 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.

  Author: Stafford Cripps

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

  Author: Courteney Cox

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

  Author: Cyril Connolly

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

  Author: Sean Connery

• Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

  Author: Jeremy Collier

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

  Author: Emily Carr

• 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.

  Author: David Brainerd

• Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

  Author: Steve Blake

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

  Author: Louis Bernieres

• I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

  Author: David Beckham

• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

  Author: Ned Beatty

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

  Author: Pierre Bayle

• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  Author: Rudolf Arnheim

• 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.'

  Author: A. Ammons

• Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

  Author: Gianni Agnelli

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