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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• 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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• 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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• From discord, find Harmony.

  Albert Einstein

  Harmony

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teamwork, Unions, Danger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Song Of Hiawatha I: The Peace-Pipe”

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

  Sallust

  Fall, Community, Society

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

  Alan Watts

  Levels, Harmony

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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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