Privilege Quotes
A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.
I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
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.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.
Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.
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.
