Walter Raleigh Quotes

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

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

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

Disorder brings about order.

Riot makes for ruin. Reason makes for solution.

I cannot consent to the bloody consequence of so silly a contest about so silly an object, conducted in the silliest manner … from which we are likely to derive nothing but poverty, disgrace, defeat, and ruin.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

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

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.