Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to the temple for our own blessings, what a glorious privilege to do the work for those who have gone on before us.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.

You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it.

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

Adults rarely like being told that they don’t have all the answers, or worse still, that the answers they do have are all the wrong ones.