Contradistinction Quotes

#1. The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

Lysander Spooner

#2. How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

#3. Pantheism, n.
The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Nathaniel Branden

#5. A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#6. The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another.

Henry Miller

#7. India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

Howard Staunton

#9. A big-time operator does not sleep with a woman of the town.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#10. Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.

Jen Calonita

#11. I want to chase the butterflies.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#12. I like fighting because it's honest.

Gina Carano

#13. A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.

J. Loren Norris

#14. [The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

George Gilder