Distinctions Quotes
164 Distinctions quotes by 144 unique authors
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a…
— Zhuangzi
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are…
— William Blackstone
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The highest of distinctions is service to others.
— George IV of the United Kingdom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to…
— Robert Bork
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Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
— Olympe de Gouges
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Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to…
— Olympe de Gouges
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People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings,…
— Dee Hock
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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of…
— Victoria Woodhull
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The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem…
— Anthony Hopkins
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When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil,…
— Rajneesh
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Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories,…
— Norman Potter
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The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
— David Antin
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Hatred obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
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