Privilege Quotes

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

I want to privilege the moment.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for the Word of God, and I praise Him for the privilege of still being able to memorize.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.