6 Quotes Tagged: distinction

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

"I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought."

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori...

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that distinction.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.