"In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance."

-- Lazare Carnot

#Country Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Littles Quotes

“So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.”
“What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.”
“...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones”
“People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.”
“Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.”
“Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If youâ€™re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulseâ€”the key vital sign of a company.”
“The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.”
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”

You may also like:

Andre-Marie Ampere
Physicist
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Author
Bertrand Barere
French Politician
Jacques Pierre Brissot
Joseph Fouche
French statesman
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Political leader
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander
Rudolf Clausius
Physicist