Classifications and distinctions based on race or color…

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

— John Locke

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

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

— John Marshall

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings…

— Alexander Hamilton

[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States, or which…

— David O. McKay

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe…

— J. Philippe Rushton

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing…

— Robert Moss

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein…

— Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

“Write in hashtags!”

— Steven Magee

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

— George Henry Lewes

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding