Privilege Quotes

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

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.

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real privilege to get back together with people.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

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.

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

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

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

Privilege does not operate without silence.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

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 think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

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

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

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 the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

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 have the privilege to make ethical choices through my food each day. It's beyond nourishment to me. Each meal represents a lifestyle I passionately believe in.