Discord Quotes

• The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

  Tommy Douglas

  Home, Greed, Insecurity

  Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.

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• What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

  Anne Frank

  Christian, Responsibility, Justice

  Diary, 22 May 1944

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• Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

  David Suzuki

  People, Humanity, Together

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, War, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.36, Ravenio Books

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• So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Musical, Thunder

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [118]

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• Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Mankind, Ill

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

  Tacitus

  Men, Excellence, Moral

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Medicine, Restoration, Elements

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

  Sallust

  Unity, Unions, States

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• He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

  Aesop

  Strife

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.87

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• Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Peace, Chaos

  "Heraclitus". Book by Philip Wheelwright, 1959.

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Medicine, Restoration

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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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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• 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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• We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Thinking, Two

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Agreement, Unity, Silent

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

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• Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

  Khalil Gibran

  Faith, Science, Religion

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• What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Desire, Language

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• Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mind, Aikido, Defeated

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• Discord gives a relish for concord.

  Publilius Syrus

  Giving, Relish

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• Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Dust, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.

  Anton Chekhov

  War, Should, Feels

  "Letters Of Anton Chekhov To His Family And Friends With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

  Louise Colet

  Manners

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 108), 1886.

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• The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to which belong war, hatred, impatience and discord of every kind. The thorough study of water therefore signifies the end of monopolies, the end of all domination in the truest sense of the word and the start of a socialism arising from the development of individualism in its most perfect form.

  Viktor Schauberger

  War, Perfect, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.27, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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