Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an… — Omar Bakri Muhammad Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice. — Laura Bohannan Copy Share Image
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
“Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.” — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Don’t you get it? There is no other you. Out of the six and a half billion people on earth, not a… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
To each is their own, flavors born with distinction what often tastes sweet dies off in extinction. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image