Privilege Not A Right Quotes

#1. First and foremost, [Writing] reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation.

Ray Bradbury

#2. I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

L. Neil Smith

#3. Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

Harriet Harman

#4. Panties are a privilege, not a right.

Lexi Blake

#5. My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

Ashley Wagner

#6. When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Jodi Picoult

#7. To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

J.R. Ward

#8. Abundance is grasped by infusing our souls with the intoxicatingly liberating fact that life is a privilege, not a right.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Ray Bradbury

#10. Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.

Anthony Powell

#11. Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it even with the best right but without inner constraint proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring to the point of recklessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Ed Pastor

#13. It's a tremendous honor. It really is a privilege, not just a right. You're in the NFL and you wear the shield now. It means the world to me; it really is a special feeling, and my family's gotten a real kick out of it.

Mark Sanchez

#14. I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

Ian Dunbar

#15. A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

#16. Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Shirley Chisholm

#17. My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong
it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

Alexandra Bracken

#18. 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.

Rod Blagojevich

#19. Ins't that the point? It's neither your right, nor your privilege, to sit in judgement of anyone. Certainly not a people about whom you know so little.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#20. Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.

Michael Hyatt

#21. I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

Alice Waters

#22. If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

Germaine Greer

#23. Toilet paper is a right, not a privilege,

John Ringo

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

Peter Shumlin

#25. Life is a privilege, not right.

Ronnie

#26. Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Bernie Sanders

#27. Education is not a privilege, it is a right!

William J. Clinton

#28. It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#29. Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered,wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right,but a privilege of the evolved.

Luis Marques

#30. And I realized - I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.

Sarah J. Maas

#31. Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

Ellen Swallow Richards

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

Daphne Koller

#33. Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Edward Kennedy

#34. 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.

Roger Goodell

#35. Use id not a right, Queen Meira --it is a privilege.

Sara Raasch

#36. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

Faye Wattleton

#37. Breathing is a right, not a privilege, so I'm stealing it back. I'm nervous, but I'm not scared.

Sarah Crossan

#38. He had not actually known what to expect in coming here tonight, much less that it would reveal to him two essential truths of life: that men do become wolves and that if you have the privilege to be witness to such a transformation it is the most natural and right thing you have ever seen.

Brian McGreevy

#39. Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

Alice Waters

#40. It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

Tertullian

#41. True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

David O. McKay

#42. is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#43. Election of Public Officers. The right to vote is not a natural one but is derived from constitutions and statutes; it is not a privilege protected by the Fourteenth Amendment;

John Bouvier

#44. Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#45. Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

Julio Frenk

#46. When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

Bart Stupak

#47. I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

Bart Stupak

#48. We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

Tim Johnson

#49. We forgive not because it's easy or the right thing to do, but that the choice to forgive is in itself powerful. It's an affirmation, a willingness to take life on life's terms. And a privilege that no one can take from you. It

Kathleen Tessaro

#50. I want to 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.

Bernie Sanders

#51. Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Theodor Adorno

#52. It's a privilege and not a right to own a business.

Marcus Lemonis