Privilege Quotes

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

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

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

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

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

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.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Your home is your giant-size privilege, your towering priority.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him.

What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well.

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!

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

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.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.

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

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

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

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.

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.

White privilege is the other side of racism.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.