#distinct

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#color #distinction #emancipation #every #go

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#audience #british #distinct #early #else

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#dark #distinction #drifts #further #his

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#distinct #law #perfectly #practice

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#be prepared #catch #distinction #elements #give

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distinctly #excluded #felicity #general #heaven

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#distinct #judeo-christian #most #religion #seeks

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

Art is anything people do with distinction. ↗

— Louis Dudek

#art #distinction #people