Bertolt Brecht Quotes

Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

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

We paid a big price for not stopping it -- that is the looting and the security -- because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground

As soon as external wars have ceased the internal commence

War is unsettling.

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.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

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

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

This is an era of violent peace.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.