Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

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

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.

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

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.

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

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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