Distinctions Quotes

164 Distinctions quotes by 144 unique authors

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose… — David Greenberg
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. — Abbie Hoffman
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to… — Arthur Keith
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where… — Pablo Picasso
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is… — Harold Pinter
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your… — Sydney Smith
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on… — Tom Stoppard
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to… — Thomas Szasz
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… — Annie Dillard
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions. — Rumi
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.… — Haruki Murakami
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and… — Mortimer Adler
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me. — P. C. Cast
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle… — George Orwell
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed… — Bram Stoker
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… — Joseph Brodsky

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