Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

I prize the privilege of being alone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

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

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.

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 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 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.

It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.

I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with you. So many distinguished members of our services, and that's really what you are, very, very highly distinguished members.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.