Dee Hock Quotes

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.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Our time has experienced greater technological progress than ever existed before, and yet we are faced with the fact that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery and the destruction of nature have not abated but rather to some extent increased. Many peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social disarray, political marginalization and national collapse.

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

We live in a... chaotic world.

It's not the ideal situation to have two directors. It's just not the ideal thing.

The world is pretty messed up.

The world is a mess.

Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

Our country is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore.

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

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

Form follows function straight to hell.

The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.