Kate Chopin Quotes

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

The world is too violent right now.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

I think it's going to be a doosey. I mean, talk about a fistfight in a whorehouse.

When civil fury first grew high And men fell out they knew not why.

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.

There will never be quietness in this country till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.

In times of crisis and violence in Turkey, there are apt to be two class of persons—assassins and assassinated.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

We must accept the possibility of bloodshed if we are to bring about order.

Freedom in the Arab world is synonymous with disorder.

War is never a good environment in which to run.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?