“Chaos, a rough and unordered mass.”

“The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.”

Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers

“To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.”

Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953) Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under fellow Georgian and Soviet leader Stalin

“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”

Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author

“Chaos Isn't A Pit. Chaos Is A Ladder.”

movie Game of Thrones

“It's the ultimate chaos that generates partial chaos, but that chaos also is what revivifies life, because otherwise it would just be static.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

“The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet