Distinction Quotes

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

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.