Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
