Privilege Quotes

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

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.

[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.

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.

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.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

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

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

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

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

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.

If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.

A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

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.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

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

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

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

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it.

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

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

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

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.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

I have the best job in the world. There's not really a lot to moan or whine about. I've got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.