Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other."
Distinction quotes
Distinction
124 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it."
Antonin Artaud
Playwright, Actor, Theorist
"Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself."
Lin Yutang
Writer
"The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty."
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"Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims."
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"For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics."
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"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
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"There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people."
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"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind."
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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
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"Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."
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"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess."
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."
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"You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions."
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"Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances."
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"Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man."
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"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."
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"The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction."
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction."
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"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."
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"IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not."
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"It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."
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