Quotes: Dissension

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

American economist and sociologist

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

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

Samuel E. Morison