Famous quotes containing the words distinctions and/or honors:
“Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idolsit is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)