societal chaos Quotes

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.