Russell M. Nelson Quotes

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Divisiveness is the only thing that sells today. Comity dies not sell. Civility does not sell.

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

People have created feuds between me and other artists.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Conflicts are never health for anybody.

Weakness and ambivalence lead to war

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I'm not a fan of drama.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

I am not anyone's enemy.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

I don't have beef with nobody.

I want to manufacture a feud.

I don't like conflict.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Humans are one another’s enemies