Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about. It's been a privilege.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole life.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

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 a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I prize the privilege of being alone.