Giordano Bruno Quotes

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

As soon as control eases, there is chaos. [Yi fang, jiu luan.]

NO LAW MEANS NO LAW!

It is then a very unseasonable time to plead law, when swords are in the hands of the vulgare, or to think to restrain them with fear of punishments when they look after liberty and shake off all government.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

An uncontrollable situation, in which there are no clearly defined spheres of authority, has come about in the country. Under these conditions, normal life is impossible.

History is messy, undetermined, and layered.

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.