Top 1200 Class Distinction Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

I believe the Islamic ideology is a retarded, dangerous one, but I make a distinction. I don't hate people. I don't hate Muslims.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their - their debt from college at a lower rate. Those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

I was about six, and Liverpool had a community summer camp. They sent a few invites to my school and my age group, to my class specifically, and they were like, 'Who wants to go?' So every lad in the class put their hands up, as you'd imagine, so the only fair way was to pick names out of a hat, and luckily, my name was picked out.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.