The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. — Thorstein Veblen 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
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
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention;… — Susan Rice 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
Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“As I would learn later on, developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world -- those individuals whose talents are… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained… — Sallust Copy Share Image
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom. — Mickey Arthur Copy Share Image
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
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