“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” PeopleMenStatesGodReligionOrderStuffDifferencesChurchCommonDyingQuietAuthorityHungerIllExcellentOne Man Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.” PeopleMenWellsHappensDifferencesPrinciplesPracticeQuietOfficeStatementsDryThings In Life Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.” WorldWellsBodyPastChangeDifferencesWorryLearningFutureQuietEternalWitnessStillness Author:Robert Adams
“Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.” ChildrenDifferentIndividualParentDifferencesViewsQuietActiveShyTemperamentCornerstonesGood ParentParent ChildIndividual DifferencesParent Child Relationship Author:Sandra Scarr
“What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.” MenTogetherDifferencesHe ManTheoryQuietFaultsScareHuntersGet TogetherHuntedHunter GatherersBison Author:Jenna McCarthy