Social Distinctions Quotes

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences.

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like.

I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.