Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with…

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

— Jonah Goldberg

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

“There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

— Olympe de Gouges

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

— Anonymous

“Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.” —Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, article 1, 1789”

— Thomas Piketty

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons…

— George Sand

I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same -…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of…

— Cassandra Clare

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

— Whitfield Diffie

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of…

— Thomas Paine

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

— Fanny Kemble

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti