Famous quotes containing the words number and/or principle:
“States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)