Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Stevenson

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Brandon Marshall

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

Ambrose Bierce

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

George Orwell

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Emily Saliers

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Lionel Blue

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Joseph Stiglitz

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Billy Collins

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.