Famous quotes containing the words difference and/or principle:
“The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)