#distinction

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

— Andrea Dworkin

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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

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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

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Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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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. ↗

— John Grierson

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

— John Hales

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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. ↗

— Buddha

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