Discord Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discord Ill Mankind Remedy Tolerance
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I am mature enough to know our differences make us unique, however, indifference and disrespect create discord. — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely… — John Wesley Shipp Copy Share Image
Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long… — Walter Farrell Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image