Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

Being a role model is a privilege.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.

He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.