Quotes About Discord

Buddhism takes change as a given and suffering as the inevitable consequence of attachment and then asks what you are going to do about it. Suffering, though, is not the most accurate translation of the Pali word dukkha. Dukkha means sky, ether, or hole, particularly an axle hole. Sukkha was a good axle hole for a wheel, while dukkha was a poor one, one that made the wheel wobble and bump, jolting the load. It could be translated as discord or disturbance, the antithesis of harmony or serenity.

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It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its "false idols." It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols—bigotry and fanaticism—worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. 1

Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. MATTHEW 10:34

War among men defiles this world.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

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

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

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

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.