Make No Distinctions

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

— Robert Sapolsky

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them

— Henry David Thoreau

To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept…

— Richard Carrier

In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever…

— Haruki Murakami

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

— Barbara Jordan

The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting…

— Therese Fowler

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

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

— Jonah Goldberg

“Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects’ minds, often not at all.”

— Harry Beckwith

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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

— Anonymous

“If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the significant distinctions and resemblances. To…

— Erik Pevernagie

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the…

— Howard Staunton