"We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos." (John Dewey, "Democracy in Education", The Elementary School Teacher, 1903)
"Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos." (Bertrand Russell, "Authority and the Individual", 1949)
"We had our atomic wars - thousands of years ago. After that we fought with bows and arrows. Then, slowly, we learned that fighting is no solution - that aggression leads to chaos." (Edmund H North, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" [film script] 1951)
"He jaunted up the geodesic lines of space-time to an Elsewhere and an Elsewhen. He arrived in chaos. He hung in a precarious para-Now for a moment and then tumbled back into chaos." (Alfred Bester, "The Stars My Destination", 1956)
"In a chaotic universe, who expects justice?" (Raylyn Moore, "Trigononomy", 1973)
"It is a concatenation of synergistic interactions; the whole system is on the period-doubling route to Chaos! [...] in layman’s terms, it means that everything gets twice as bad, twice as fast, until everything falls completely apart!" (William Gibson & Bruce Sterling, "The Difference Engine", 1991)
"Storms of Cataclysm lashed the Cretaceous earth, vast fires raged, and cometary grit sifted through the roiling atmosphere, to blight and kill the wilting foliage, till the mighty Dinosauria, adapted to a world now shattered, fell in massed extinction, and the leaping machineries of Evolution were loosed in chaos, to re-populate the stricken Earth with strange new orders of being." (William Gibson & Bruce Sterling, "The Difference Engine", 1991)
"Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized." (Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times", 1995)
"An elven trait, to believe that that government governs best which doesn’t govern at all. Chaos is more fun. Anarchy is the ideal." (Glen Cook, "Angry Lead Skies" 2002)
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