Quotes About Dissension

#1. Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension.

Abhijit Naskar

#2. In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Constance Rourke

#3. Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

John Donvan

#4. Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

William Shakespeare

#5. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.

William Shakespeare

#6. Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he hath raised up a sect such as teach ... that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

Martin Luther

#7. There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech." I said
Alexnder Naymeer and Bobby Pendragon, Raven Rise, Page 458

D.J. MacHale

#8. Those who shake the State are easily the first to be engulfed in its destruction. The fruits of dissension are not gathered by the one who began it: he stirs and troubles the waters for other men to fish in.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated .

Genghis Khan

#10. Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

Alfred Bester

#11. Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Thorstein Veblen

#12. In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Euripides

#13. It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.

N.K. Jemisin

#14. Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

Robert Greene

#15. This oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

Susan B. Anthony

#16. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H.G.Wells

#17. The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.

Woody Hayes

#18. The amount of dissension rises geometrically with the more issues you have to philosophize over.

Alan C. Greenberg

#19. The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.

Art Hoppe

#20. The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk ... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.

Paul Haggis

#21. We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

Billy Graham

#22. 13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Anonymous

#23. I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike - injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, like all religious reformers.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#24. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Jesse Ventura

#25. Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

Martin Luther

#26. Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives.

Carol Bly

#27. Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#28. The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

Rick Pitino

#29. O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

Baha'u'llah

#30. A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

Sallust

#31. Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from without, but

Yoon Ha Lee

#32. Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

Samuel E. Morison

#33. If there had been a little less home dissension, there would have been a great deal less foreign oppression.

Mary Frances Cusack

#34. The strike spread with the speed of telepathy.

H.W. Brands

#35. Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

James E. Talmage