Physical Distinction Quotes

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.

I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.