Famous quotes containing the word distinctive:
“Progress, mans distinctive mark alone,
Not Gods, and not the beasts: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (18511931)
“The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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