Quotes About Discord

Some people today argue that religion is primarily a source of violence, conflict, and social discord. Historically, however, religion has played the opposite role: it is a source of social cohesion that permits human beings to cooperate far more widely and securely than they would if they were the simple rational and self-interested agents posited by the economists.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.

People are discord," Syl said. "What does that mean?" "You all act differently and think differently. Nothing else is like that—animals act alike (...) There's harmony in that. But not in you—it seems that no two of you can agree on anything. All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

All life worked in concert, he'd been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.

Dondequiera que fuese fomentaba la discordia: no porque fuera idealista, sino porque era como un reflector que revelaba la estupidez y futilidad de todo.

That is to say, he had no theory at all, except to penetrate to the very essence of things and, in the light of each fresh revelation to so live his life that there would be a minimum of discord between the truths which were revealed to him and the exemplification of these truths in action.

The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.

If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.

The norm of bipartisan agreement has been shattered forever and, once shattered, it cannot be put back together.

First, that troubled people tend to be the most powerful figures in a family, the most effective at exporting their internal discord into the world around them.

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. ("Love lying fallow ")

About as musical as a landslide.

There is no Kurdish problem.

Then we're on the same page. Same paragraph, same sentence," I snapped. "Same bloody word," he agreed flatly.

For what is war renowned? He divides. He carves down the middle and makes enemies of even brothers and sisters, parents and offspring.

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.

I say, "I just don't like you

Unlike magnets, opposites do not necessarily attract; sometimes they merely bash one another to death.

During the nearly two years of separation from her husband and the society of the Viennese court, the Empress had changed. She had become very self-confident and brisk and had learned to assert her interests vigorously. The Emperor living in constant fear that at the first sign of discord she might run off again and do further damage to the prestige of the August House, treated her circumspectly, showing infinite patience.