Distinctions Quotes

164 Distinctions quotes by 144 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of… — Victoria Woodhull
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
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
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
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Mary Wortley Montagu
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. — David Antin
Hatred obscures all distinctions. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to… — Andrew Jackson
The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a… — Albert J. Nock
Death and the dice level all distinctions. — Samuel Foote
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to… — Janet Burroway
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts… — W. C. Sellar

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