Distinction Quotes

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

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

Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

I didn't experience the negative side of [Adolf] Hitler. My sister [Eva Braun] did, that's a big distinction.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

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

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

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

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

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

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

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

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

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.