Distinction Quotes - Page 3

• 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 a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Anger, Responsibility

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Real, Class

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• 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.

  Bradley Whitford

  Real, Needs, Enough

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• I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Love, Change, Sex

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Creativity, Being Alone

  "The Creative Process" by James A. Baldwin originally published in The National Culture Center's "Creative America", 1962, and later published in James A. Baldwin "The Price of the Ticket", 1985.

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• The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

  Lowell Thomas

  Cutting, Men, Crowds

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• I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

  Joely Fisher

  College, Alumni, Really Weird

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Real, Character, Appreciate

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

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• The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Children, Crazy

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

  David Antin

  Meaningful, Children, Sight

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• 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

  Robert Bork

  Judging, Assuming, Legislation

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Sex, Women, Believe

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

  David Antin

  Unsatisfied

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• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Play, Roles

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• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Giving, Atmosphere

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Hate, Men, Genocide

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

  Norton Juster

  Book, Good Book, Periods

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

  Jim Allchin

  Running, Operating Systems, Neat

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• Death and the dice level all distinctions.

  Samuel Foote

  Levels, Dice

  Samuel Foote (1760). “The Minor: A Comedy. Written by Mr. Foote. As it is Now Acting at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. ...”, p.39

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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  Walter Lang

  Ideas, Scripture, Progressive

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• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Giving, Temptation

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• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  Ernestine Rose

  Sex, Party, Rights

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• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  May, Marry Me, Social

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

  John George Nicolay

  Men, Gains, Firsts

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  John George Nicolay

  Law, West, Wells

  John George Nicolay (1922). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...”, p.183, Library of Alexandria

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