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Distinction Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction,…
- Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
- There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own…
- And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is…
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- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. — John Banville
- Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. — Bruce Barton
- The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram
- The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin
- In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency… — James Buchan
- To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you,… — George W. Bush
- We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. — George W. Bush
- God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage