Discord Quotes

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Should the idea get abroad that there is likely to be no union among us, it will damp the minds of the people, diminish the glory of our struggle, and lessen its importance; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or galantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

I've just had this fight since I can't even remember.

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

Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.

Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

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

We don't always win when we are united, but we always lose when we are divided.

Pluralism, democracy, unity, respect all mean nothing because on the ground, we hate each other

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

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

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.