Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

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

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 surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

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.

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

Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.