Dissension Quote by Sallust Download Open image “A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.” — Sallust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dissension Fall Increase Ruins States
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America. — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own.… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
