Dissension Quotes
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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— p.38 (Absentee Ownership (1923))
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Euripides— Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps.
"Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance."
— Sunah of Abu Dawood, Hadith 1996
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.
— The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)
If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree, How will their grudging stomachs be provoked To wilful disobedience and rebel!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act IV, scene 1, line 139.
The demand for a statement of a candidate’s religious belief can have no meaning except that there may be discrimination for or against him because of that belief. Discrimination against the holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimination against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of entering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conditions of religious dissension which in so many lands have proved fatal to true liberty, to true religion, and to all advance in civilization.
— Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to Mr. J.C. Martin concerning religion and politics (November 6, 1908)
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
— His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, Address by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Leadership and Diversity Conference - Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004 (AKDN).
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
— Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps.
"Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance."
— Sunah of Abu Dawood, Hadith 1996
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.
Primo Levi— "Zinc" (The Periodic Table (1975))
Alas! how light a cause may move dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Light of the Harem, line 183.
Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act III, scene 1, line 71.
