Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

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

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.