Quotes by Differences It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out. Frank Zappa differencesguygovernment Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world. Fred Rogers differencesspaceworld In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Frederic Bastiat differenceslawgiving The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing. Frederick Salomon Perls differenceswisemen Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference. Fred Rogers vermontdifferencesstates ...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. Frederick Douglass wickeddifferencesenemy One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism. Freya Stark differenceshealthytrying It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives. Fred Rogers differencesplaypeople If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace. Fridtjof Nansen differencesfearpeace There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. Friedrich August von Hayek differenceslibertypeople The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. Friedrich Durrenmatt differencesliteratureanimal I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years. Frederick Buechner differencesbelievethinking Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal. Friedrich Durrenmatt spyrussiadifferences The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word "God," at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures. Frederick Buechner differencesheartmean Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered. Fritz Stern differencesbelievethinking The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged. Fritjof Capra environmentaldifferencesscience The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States. Frederick Douglass democracydifferencescolor All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld differencespridemen We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes Fujio Cho differencesaveragepeople It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke differencesmenmean«8586878889909192939495»
