Social Distinction Quotes

#1. I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Helen Clark

#2. NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

Aldous Huxley

#4. It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

Jimenez Lai

#5. Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Andrea Dworkin

#7. That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung

#8. For three years, he quietly built up the first community of believers, whose particular feature was that it gathered, without distinction, women and men of all clans and all social categories (although the bulk were young or poor).

Tariq Ramadan

#9. Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

Adolf Hitler

#10. When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.

Oscar Romero

#11. A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.

Gene Luen Yang

#12. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

Judith Butler

#13. Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Sterling W. Sill

#14. Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.

Onyi Anyado

#15. When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

Rob Bell

#16. The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

#17. I'm uptight in general, and it's hard for me to play in a situation where I'm not rehearsed or I feel like I'm not prepared. So it's always hard for me to come away from those and think it was the best thing I could do.

Bill Orcutt

#18. By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Barbara Demick

#19. I'm active on Facebook and Twitter professionally, then personally I have my own Facebook account, but nobody knows my name or anything. I don't use it to connect with my friends, but I love to play on it.

Glenda Bailey

#20. I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

Meia Geddes

#21. That you are misserable and full demons and angry don't make the others like you... It's your problem, as for me I want to continue to be positive!

Deyth Banger

#22. As I walked along that path,

I felt drawn from myself, elated,

struck stupidly good for a moment

by the extravagant beauty of the world.

Garth Greenwell

#23. In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.

Roger Zelazny

#24. I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

Johnny Depp

#25. The period is one of the most complicated and concepts of classical rhetoric. Nobody in the ancient world could quite decide what it meant, but they were united in the belief that it was terribly, terribly important.

Mark Forsyth

#26. All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Rod Stewart

#27. My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Jay Roach