Privilege Responsibility Quotes

#1. Privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

Eileen O'Brien

#3. With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

Ben Elton

#4. Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.

Richard Scaife

#5. Privilege always involves responsibility.

John Arthur Thomson

#6. There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. O let us prove our gratitude by our devotion, and live as those who, having claimed a privilege, are willing to take the responsibility connected with it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Matt Mullenweg

#9. All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

Megan Whalen Turner

#10. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Tony Robbins

#11. The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Peter Drucker

#12. We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

Haskell Wexler

#13. Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

C. Everett Koop

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

Peter Drucker

#15. Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us.

Tanveer Naseer

#16. Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we're no different you're saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilities ... .

Steven Erikson

#17. From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

John Vasconcellos

#18. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter F. Drucker

#19. The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

Noam Chomsky

#20. I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#21. Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

William Kingdon Clifford

#22. Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.

Sandra Rodriguez Barron

#23. A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

Peter Kreeft

#24. Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#25. If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.

James Nesbitt

#26. Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

Steve Buyer

#27. It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

Lilian Whiting

#29. It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

Billy Graham

#30. Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

Dwyane Wade

#31. The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page.

Javier A. Robayo

#32. Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Albert Camus

#33. Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.

Polly Young-Eisendrath

#34. Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

William Arthur Ward

#35. I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't speak for all gay people.

Damian Barr

#36. Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

David Jeremiah

#37. Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.

Michael Hyatt

#38. The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.

Allen Johnson

#39. 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.

James F. Twyman

#40. Freedom is the privilege of exercising responsibility.

John Spencer Yantiss

#41. Augustus: I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up.
Hazel: And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you.

John Green

#42. All of us have the privilege and responsibility of choosing our attitudes, no matter what circumstances or situations we find ourselves in. The key word here is choosing. Attitudes don't just happen; they are the products of our choices.

Joyce Meyer