Privilege Quotes

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

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 had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

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

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

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.

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

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.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

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.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

Never live beneath your privileges.

I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!

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

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

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