Top 315 Distinctions Quotes & Sayings

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners.

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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 disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

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 on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.

All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

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 disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

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 into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

There are distinctions between Indian and Pakistani writers.

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.