Disorders Quotes

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of over weening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.

Calling the New York State Legislature “a circus” is inappropriate. Circus animals are very intelligent.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

As countries birth rates declined, … their likelihood of civil conflict also tended to decline.

This is chaos—organized chaos at best.

It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

In chaos there is opportunity

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

It will give satisfaction to the people; and be a happy means, under providence, of preventing popular commotions, mobs, bloodshed and civil war.

The landed proprietors as a class are little qualified to pass judgment as to the real and the fictitious in certain social phenomena; on the other hand, they are naturally inclined to follow any conservative tendency, afraid as they are of a return of serious disorders .... The great industrialists were not thinking of combatting Bolshevism, which they knew very well did not threaten them any longer; they were up in arms against the socialist, or socializing, spirit of reform which had been gradually developing in the first twenty years of this century

There is or there has been in the past much selfishness in the northern White man's motives in opening up Africa, and in his interference in the disorders of the Black man or the Brown.

A democratic society cannot tolerate mob rule.

Disorder brings about order.

Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weakness and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than history.