I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in… — Alan Keyes 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
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image