Discord Quotes - Page 8

• A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

  Edward Gibbon

  Vanity, Race, Desire

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.714, Modern Library

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

  Edward Gibbon

  Escaping, Political, Desire

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.318

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Different, Revolt, Ifs

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Moments, Form, Revolt

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Spiritual, Hate, Home

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

  Anandi Gopal Joshi

  Men, Degradation, Maintenance

  544 Copy quote

• A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Spices, Courtship

  6 Copy quote

• Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Night, Men

  5 Copy quote

• In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Jesus, Character, Greatness

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1864). “A Reasonable, Holy, and Living Sacrifice: A Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey, on January 10, 1864, Being the Day Following His Installation”, p.18

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Lawlessness, Anarchy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.6, CCEL

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

  Henry VIII of England

  Men, Charity, Busy

  239 Copy quote

• Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Evil, Parent

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4371, Delphi Classics

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

  Ian Stewart

  Beauty, Art, Views

  10 Copy quote

• The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

  Joe Walsh

  Revenge, Hatred, Violence

  Song: The Confessor

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Steps, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Heart, Simple, Voice

  11 Copy quote

• A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

  George Washington

  Believe, Creating, Foundation

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1793). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Goal, Community, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source