#discriminate

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#clamor #difficult #discriminate #heated #partisans

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#circumstances #civilians #illegal #indiscriminate #ought

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#against #because #congregation #discriminate #doing

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#discriminated #many #men #more #much

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions. ↗

— Lois Capps

#age #because #conditions #discriminated #health

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#discriminate #evil #function #good #good and evil

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#against #basis #because #best #discriminated

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#because #citizen #discriminated #gender #going