Disharmony Quotes

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Your god is a masked Death.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.”
― Frederick Barthelme, Elroy Nights

“For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
by making his world a little colder...”
― The Beatles

“I felt in harmony with the disharmony of others, myself, and the world.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“I was born free and by harmony
to carry the disharmony in Our Universe.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 4, 2016”
― Petra Hermans

“Today’s widespread social disharmony in relation to gender is not inevitable for human society, although it is the inevitable product of thousands of years of systemic gender injustice across the globe. Because we have never known anything else, it is difficult impossible for us to imagine what life would be like if we had grown up in a society that was truly integrated and healthy in relation to gender and sexuality. The entire fabric of human society would be vastly different from what we know today.”
― William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men

“Family often becomes a source of pain when there is disharmony and acrimony amongst the family members. Living with the same family then becomes hell instead of heaven, especially when love and trust is lost.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Only religious bigotry and ever-increasing population are the causes of world’s social disharmony.”
― Dr. Ashok Anand

“Here we are at the height of civilization in a well-run state in a great democracy. And four ten-year olds were picked up for pushing hard drugs in the school where our six year old is regularly given black eyes and a bloody nose.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)