Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.