Discord Quotes - Page 3

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  Sallust

  Fall, Community, Society

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• Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

  Anne Frank

  Christian, Responsibility, Fighting

  Diary, 22 May 1944

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• From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Flow, Fierce

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, closing lines

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• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Unity, Might, Harmony

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.150, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

  George William Curtis

  Faith, Peace, Heart

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• The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

  Bryan Procter

  Literature, Earth, Noise

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.192

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• Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Heart, Soul, Division

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• All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

  Alexander Pope

  Erring, Chance

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

  Alan Watts

  Levels, Harmony

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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

  Plutarch

  Music, Medicine, Disease

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• I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

  Lucy Larcom

  Slave, Enough, Incessant

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• All nature is but art unknown to thee.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Nature, Literature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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  Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

  T. D. Jakes

  Cancer, Frustration, People

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• When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Empowerment, Our Actions

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Oneness, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

  Thomas Adams

  Holy, Profane

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.79

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• The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

  Aldo Leopold

  Song, Rivers, Long

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.184, Library of America

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• The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Children, Father, Son

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• I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Mind, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

  Sallust

  Empires, Harmony, States

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

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• Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

  Libba Bray

  Differences, Needs, Impediments

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

  Bruce Lee

  Simplicity, Chaos, Harmony

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• Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

  Austin O'Malley

  Charity, Notes, Resolve

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