Distinction Quotes - page 4

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action. (Allan Bloom)
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture” quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter. View quote
Allan Bloom
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus. View quote
Paul A. Baran
The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge. View quote
John F. Kennedy
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. View quote
Nathaniel Parker Willis
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result - ruthlessness in political life. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air. View quote
Paul
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. View quote
Mark Haddon
Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself? View quote
Norman Spinrad
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. View quote
Philip K. Dick
I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world. (Fred Hampton)
I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. View quote
Gerard De Nerval
The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
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. View quote
Alice Hoffman
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. View quote
Bill Brandt
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. View quote
Ann Brashares
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you. View quote
Flann O'Brien
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. View quote
Christina Hoff Sommers
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each. (Arthur Peacocke)
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. View quote
Bobby Darin
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. View quote
Belva Ann Lockwood
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman. View quote
Ben Casnocha
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. View quote
Charles Kendall Adams