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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• From discord, find Harmony.

  Albert Einstein

  Harmony

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hope, Truth, Errors

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Alan Watts

  Levels, Harmony

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• All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Evil, Erring

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

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