“I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.”
2010-, Digital Activism in China, 2010
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Chinese concept artist 1957Related quotes
“There is a vivid contrast between the order of China and the chaos of the West.”
Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China
Source: As quoted in The East Is Rising': Xi Maps Out China’s Post-Covid Ascent https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/world/asia/xi-china-congress.html The New York Times
“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“All historical evidence seems to be that the party of chaos is suppressed by the party of order.”
Nick Land (1962) British philosopher
"‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land" https://syntheticzero.net/2017/06/19/the-only-thing-i-would-impose-is-fragmentation-an-interview-with-nick-land/ (2017)
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
High Output Management
M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch graphic artist
Variant translations: Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.
1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953
Context: In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it?
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
Context: Complementary to his is Thurber's remark that "humour is a kind of emotional chaos, told about quietly and calmly in retrospect". Emotional chaos is not pleasant; distillation of that chaos afterward may perhaps be pleasant in some of its aspects, and undoubtedly gives pleasure to others.
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson
On himself