Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction,… — Edith Wharton
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of… — Albert Einstein
We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no… — Unknown Author
There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not… — Aimee Mullins
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue,… — Frances McDormand
The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen… — Christopher Hitchens
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently. — Joely Fisher
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. — Gregg Braden
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a… — Charlton Heston
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of… — Stephen Hawking
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer… — Barbara Fredrickson
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it… — Marshall Sahlins
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. — Nathaniel Parker
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between… — Charles Tupper
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers,… — Lucretia Mott
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. — Nelson A. Miles
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's… — Edward Abbey
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They… — Thomas Jefferson
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men… — Thomas Paine
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word… — John Marshall
I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction — Jurgen Habermas

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