Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to… — Richard Hofstadter
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social… — Oscar Romero
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to… — Charles Darwin
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good… — Ayn Rand
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not… — J C Ryle
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it… — Jack Kemp
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of… — David Livingstone
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that… — Donna J. Haraway
It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding… — Margaret Thatcher
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. — Pierre de Coubertin
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in… — James F. Cooper
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. — Bill Brandt
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed — John Searle
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. — Washington Allston
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. — Carl Schmitt
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. — Benjamin Tucker
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences… — Sidney Hook
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are… — Russell Baker
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is… — Antisthenes
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster
If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of… — Sister Nivedita

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