Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

There’s the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day – playdates, doctors‘ appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

You can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.