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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Harmony, Be Good, Oneself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• From discord, find Harmony.

  Albert Einstein

  Harmony

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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

  Sallust

  Fall, Community, Society

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• Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

  William Shakespeare

  Guitar, Degrees, Strings

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 109

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• Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Bowels, Worms, Commonwealth

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

  Plutarch

  Harmony, Harmony In Music

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.1187, 谷月社

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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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• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  Kate Chopin

  Crush, Hands, Gnarly

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Alice James

  Pain, Fall, Soul

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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

  Plutarch

  Music, Medicine, Disease

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