Ivo Andric Quotes

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

If we allow the passions of our men to get full command then indeed will this war become a reproach to the names of liberty and civilization.

Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

We have beastly qualities within us. If we're put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.

I think I'm just a little, for a lack of a better word, primal in how I operate in all aspects of life.

Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.

I think 'Chris' is way more about that, about living desire as a force of chaos and about reveling in that chaos.

Once you cross that social conditioning threshold that holds us back, we all become animals. Instantly.

The NWO, yeah, we're a bunch of outlaws, thugs, whatever you want to call us, but... we do what we want, when we want. And we're having fun doing it.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.