"Will you fight for a world of chaos, with an ever-shifting blur of boundaries and borders, where the only path through the confusion is that which you carve out for yourself? Or will you battle for a world of order governed by an unwavering discipline, in which your path toward a promised future is straight and well-paved? The time has come and the choice is yours!"
Pearl: With chaos, you never know what'll happen next, which is AWESOME!
Marina: But think about it, Pearl! The world might fall apart! WE might fall apart. There has to be balance in the world in order to prepare for the future!
Marina: Look, I'm not saying nothing should ever change. I just want to protect the balance I've found in my life. Don't you think it's important to create a place we can all feel safe and secure?
Pearl: Not if it means living in a world where everything is predictable. It's not like I wanna watch the world burn. I just want it to change. Daily.
"I am neither holy nor base, neither angel nor devil. I am... freedom. Chaos. Transformation. Future. Mystery. I am Yune. [...] Neither is [Ashera] holy nor base, angel nor devil. She is... restriction. Order. Stability. Past. Certainty. Restraint. She is Ashera."
—Yune, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
"Introduce a little anarchy... upset the established order... and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos? It's fair."
"The Empire improves every system it touches. Judge by any metric: safety, prosperity, trade, opportunity, peace. Compare Imperial rule... to what is happening now. Look outside. Is the world more peaceful since the revolution? I see nothing but death and chaos."
— The Client, The Mandalorian
"He calls himself the Master of Time! Faugh! "Gardener of Time" is more truthful! He prunes away the chronal branches deemed by others to be dangerous—reducing reality to a bloodless meadow! But such is not the way of warriors—of men! I say let it be a forest! Let it be a jungle! Let it be something we must strive against and conquer whatever comes! Fight it! Kill it! Crush it!"
— Kang the Conqueror, Avengers Forever
Haytham Kenway: The people never have the power, only the illusion of it! And here is the real secret: they don't want it. The responsibility is too great to bear. It's why they are so quick to fall in line as soon as someone else takes charge. They want to be told what to do. They yearn for it. Little wonder that, since all mankind was built to serve.
Connor Kenway: So because we are inclined by nature to be controlled, who better than the Templars? It's a poor offer.
Haytham: It is truth. People and practice are two very different beasts. I see the world the way it is, not as I wish it would be.
Connor: No Father, you have simply given up, and you would have us all do the same.
Connor Kenway: So because we are inclined by nature to be controlled, who better than the Templars? It's a poor offer.
Haytham: It is truth. People and practice are two very different beasts. I see the world the way it is, not as I wish it would be.
Connor: No Father, you have simply given up, and you would have us all do the same.
The man who can keep order can rule the world.
But the man who can bear disorder is truly free.
But the man who can bear disorder is truly free.
"That is why the universe belongs to me. We bring order upon the chaos. Without it, life and civilization would not exist. Brother would fight brother, parents would destroy their children. Darkness would swallow all."
Reaper: You represent chaos. We represent order. Every organic civilization must be harvested to bring order to the chaos. It is inevitable. Without our intervention, organics are doomed. We are your salvation.
Shepard: You're killing everyone in the galaxy to save us?!
Reaper: The cycle must continue. There is no alternative.
Shepard: You're killing everyone in the galaxy to save us?!
Reaper: The cycle must continue. There is no alternative.
— Mass Effect 3: "Priority Rannoch"
"I was waiting for you," said Gregory. "Might I have a moment's conversation?"
"Certainly. About what?" asked Syme in a sort of weak wonder.
Gregory struck out with his stick at the lamp-post, and then at the tree. "About this and this," he cried; "about order and anarchy. There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself—there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold."
"All the same," replied Syme patiently, "just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
"Certainly. About what?" asked Syme in a sort of weak wonder.
Gregory struck out with his stick at the lamp-post, and then at the tree. "About this and this," he cried; "about order and anarchy. There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself—there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold."
"All the same," replied Syme patiently, "just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
Lucio: What you Vishkar will never understand is that people should be free!
Symmetra: What you call "freedom" is an illusion that causes more harm than good.
Symmetra: What you call "freedom" is an illusion that causes more harm than good.
"I was just picturing what I will do to you once I am free of your little toy. You have no idea of the power you try to control! Chaos will always triumph over order! It is the way of things."
— Hexadecimal, ReBoot
Cocteau: Now I'll have carte blanche to create the perfect society. My society. The purity of an ant colony and the beauty of a flawless pearl-
Phoenix: Yeah, but you can't take away people's right to be assholes! ...That's who you remind me of. An evil Mr. Rogers. Will you please kill him? (throws gun to Mook) He's pissing me off.
Silent Soldier: Are you the Seekers who fight to bring order?
Suit: You talking about the Organization, then yeah.
(Silent Soldiers all laugh evilly)
Silent Soldier: Then you’ll be torn apart by the hands of chaos.
Suit: You talking about the Organization, then yeah.
(Silent Soldiers all laugh evilly)
Silent Soldier: Then you’ll be torn apart by the hands of chaos.
Varys: I did what I did for the good of the realm.
Littlefinger: "The realm". Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.
Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos. A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
Littlefinger: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, never to try again. The fall breaks them. And some given a chance to climb, they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love, the illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Littlefinger: "The realm". Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.
Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos. A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
Littlefinger: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, never to try again. The fall breaks them. And some given a chance to climb, they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love, the illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
"Well, let me break this down. I am a devil, a servant of the underworld that spreads chaos, and you are an angel, one of the servants sent by God to uphold order. You understand this, right?"
— Rias Gremory, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Chapter 3
Shadow Representative: The Vorlons stand for order above anything else. No passion, no dreams...just discipline, obedience. They're frozen in place, an evolutionary dead end. Why side with the old? Embrace the new. Growth through pain and struggle, conflict and war. You, of all people, should understand this. Your race came out of the last war stronger, better. How much better... how much stronger will they be after this war? You will rise from the ashes with a strength and power beyond your imagination.
Shadow Representative: There is only chaos and evolution.
Vorlon Representative: There is only order and obedience.
"The God of Order drives everyone crazy. Everything in its place and all that. You don't put down a coaster, the world's gonna blow up. I, on the other hand, say that if we run our lives based on whether we have coasters when we need them, then that's worse than a little round stain. And how many of those things do you see anyway?"
— The God of Chaos, DC Comics' Danger Street
