Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

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 privilege just to wake up to a new day.

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 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.

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.

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

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

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.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

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.

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

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.