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Quotes About Discord

The attack of the Jews and all secret enemies occurs, as it has for centuries, via seeds of discord, via lies, calumny, via shameless intrigue.
~ Peter Padfield
Albert Einstein once described his rules of work: "One: Out of clutter, find simplicity. Two: From discord, find harmony. Three: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~ Phil Jackson
There was more than a little truth in Trotsky's angry accusation of April 1912, after he had suffered the theft of the title of his journal [ Pravda ], that Lenin nourished himself on discord and chaos. But so did all revolutionary politicians, for revolutionary changes issue from profound crises. The bloody trenches of World War I created an enormous new revolutionary constituency, and only those leaders who knew how to exploit it would be prepared for the struggles that lay ahead.
~ Philip Pomper
Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.
~ John Prine
I know my role as a bad guy is to get everyone to hate me.
~ Carmella
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
~ Bill Bruford
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
~ Plato
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
~ Plutarch
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
~ Plutarch
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
~ Plutarch
An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house
~ Proverb
Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
~ Proverb
The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Los mayores y los chicos siempre pelean porque son de razas distintas
~ Ray Bradbury
Your imagination is the coat of many colors; it can clothe and objectify any idea or desire. You can imagine abundance where lack is, peace where discord is, and health where sickness is.
~ Joseph Murphy
There is a principle of truth but none of dishonesty. There is a principle of intelligence but none of ignorance. There is a principle of harmony but none of discord. There is a principle of health but none of disease, and there is a principle of abundance but none of poverty.
~ Joseph Murphy
No one ever wins a generational war.
~ Warren Adler
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
~ Werner Herzog
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
~ Daniel Webster
Mark 3:25: "And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
~ James MacDonald
Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.
~ Ro Khanna
Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That's just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
~ Lawrence Kudlow