Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

Societies organized for the interplay of individual self-interest can collapse into manic tribalism, if not nihilistic violence.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?