Distinction Quotes · Page 9

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained…

— Sallust

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

— Mickey Arthur

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

— Anatole France

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

— Lin Yutang

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

— Plutarch

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

— Jonah Goldberg

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

— Kevin Powers

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to…

— Anatole France

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like…

— William Gibson

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I…

— Charles Stanley

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take…

— Antisthenes

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might…

— Haruki Murakami

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention;…

— Susan Rice

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

Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

— Edward Snowden

I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed…

— Benjamin Disraeli

To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower…

— Albert Schweitzer

Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of…

— Emma Goldman

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

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their…

— David Rockefeller

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…

— Sallust

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

— Saul Berman

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

— Walter Savage Landor

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

— Herbert Spencer

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

— Laura Prepon

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

— Adrian Tomine

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

— Thomas Paine

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to…

— Benjamin Bratt

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

— Meister Eckhart

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

— Samuel Smiles

“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.”

— Onyi Anyado

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn