Man's greatest fear is chaos.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
This is chaos—organized chaos at best.
I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
I got fired from a job years ago. It was an accounting job. They were basically trying to cut corners, so they employed a bunch of temps to do proper accounting. And it just caused absolute bedlam and I did get fired.
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.
I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
If you want to see chaos, you should come to my house early in the morning when my three kids are running around. That's chaos.
All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired? I came out - "Rob Lowe!" - and the place was, like, bedlam. And then the next week, they wouldn't let anyone under the age of 20 into the audience. And I'm going, "So that's how it works! Okay!"
The quest for some unmistakable proof of superior status and identity replaces the ideal of success for many .... the history of modernization is largely one of carnage and bedlam rather than peaceful convergence.
