Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about. It's been a privilege.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole life.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.