Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

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, 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.

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 privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

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

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

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

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.