The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.
There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. . . . On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.
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.
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash. " That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.