Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race,… — Benazir Bhutto
The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer… — Ned Sublette
The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the… — James Lovelock
What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial… — David Duke
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without… — Robert A. Heinlein
Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that… — Eliot Porter
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction… — Michel Houellebecq
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to… — John Templeton
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint… — Benjamin Disraeli
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot. — Friedrich Nietzsche
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but… — Frederick Douglass
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. — George Bernard Shaw
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. — William Blake
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of… — William Hazlitt
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
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. — Samuel Johnson
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. — Corrie Ten Boom
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment… — Raymond Chandler
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty. — Plutarch
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I… — Flann O'Brien

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