Top 100 Quotes About Privilege
#1. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Rose Schneiderman
#2. The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
Charles De Gaulle
#3. Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
Wilkie Collins
#4. 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.
Iris Murdoch
#5. No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Margaret Sanger
#6. I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.
George Vecsey
#7. No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
Jane D. Hull
#8. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#9. Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
Viggo Mortensen
#10. All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
Theodore Roosevelt
#11. 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.
Garrison Keillor
#12. I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, greenhorn southern-Californian Asian upper-middle-class ghetto, where everyone is so shallow and money-craven.
Gary Shteyngart
#13. You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
#14. I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.
Henry Adams
#15. I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.
Rose George
#16. It's a grandmother's privilege never to have to show her grandchild who she was before she became a grandmother.
Fredrik Backman
#17. We enjoy not only the privilege of existence, but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better.
Bill Bryson
#18. God instituted laws whereby [the Spirits that He would send into the world] could have a privilege to advance life himself.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#19. Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.
Omer Bartov
#20. The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
John Fowles
#21. I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.
Russell Smith
#22. Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege.
Amy Poehler
#23. We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
Mark Teixeira
#25. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner
#26. Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art ... It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.
Joanna Macy
#27. There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.
Greg Saunier
#28. What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
#29. With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream.
Ralph Webster
#30. The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
Simone Weil
#31. But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who was in love with either/or.
Margaret Atwood
#32. Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.
Ken Salazar
#33. To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.
W. A. Criswell
#34. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#35. We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#36. You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.
Diyar Harraz
#37. I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing.
Roma Downey
#39. I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.
Nouriel Roubini
#40. By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
Horace Bushnell
#42. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#43. It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
Dalton McGuinty
#44. For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
James Norton
#45. No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.
John Owen
#46. She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.
John Peter Nettl
#47. Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
Walker Evans
#48. Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.
Bob Kauflin
#49. Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunter Grass
#50. I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.
Tori Amos
#51. People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.
Edward Norton
#52. Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.
George Vaillant
#53. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing
Katherine Mansfield
#54. Miss Gregory took nearly everything. Her clothes. New girls don't have the privilege of wearing their own clothes. Her books. Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare? Much too stimulating. No wonder you have Ideas. Certainly, you don't wish to become a bluestocking!
Suzanne Lazear
#55. Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us
Emil M. Cioran
#56. Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.
Noam Chomsky
#57. 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
#58. Whenever I've had to make a major decision as a doctor, cop or for a company I've worked for, I ask myself: What is the value proposition here? Will my decision bring added value to the population I have the privilege to serve?
Richard Carmona
#59. In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
Gail Simmons
#60. Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.
Eduardo Galeano
#61. Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
Jill Soloway
#62. She was truly beautiful, though that was not what drew him to want to know more about her. This woman of wealth and privilege had something else about her - and inner beauty - which he couldn't quite define.
Kathleen Y'Barbo
#63. I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.
Sara Sheridan
#64. I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.
Betty White
#65. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Joseph Addison
#66. Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.
Marsha Blackburn
#67. The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
Marilyn French
#68. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
#69. You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.
Henry A. Kissinger
#70. I'm your father. That's the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.
Ilona Andrews
#71. The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
Matthew Arnold
#72. It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and ... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to thank dogs. Dogs have given me everything.
Ricky Gervais
#73. Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.
Frank Herbert
#74. Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.
Martin Brodeur
#75. I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.
Jim Drain
#76. In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
Christian Louboutin
#77. If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.
Laura Schroff
#78. We see our lives from our own point of view; that is the privilege of the weakest and humblest of us;
Henry James
#79. Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other.
T.F. Hodge
#80. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#81. We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
Elisabeth Elliot
#82. I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
James Loeb
#83. I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.
Marchette Chute
#84. Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.
Charles F. Glassman
#85. The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
Pearl S. Buck
#86. God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges
Dwight L. Moody
#87. We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
John O'Donohue
#88. When you are done living for yourself, only then do you learn that living for others is the privilege,' Renata
Alan Furst
#89. To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.
Janet Morris
#90. Doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,
Jose Saramago
#91. We are taught that these are dualisms: Jewish/Arab, public/private, visible/invisible, Black/white, privilege/oppression, pride/shame. But these are false separations that don't exist.
Daisy Hernandez
#92. 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.
Philippe Perrin
#93. In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
John J. Sirica
#94. 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
#95. So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person?
Elizabeth Harrower
#96. It was a privilege to be with someone when life had knocked them down, because it meant you got to help build them up again. He
Laura Kaye
#97. Think of giving not as a privilege of having abundance in life, but as a purpose and gratitude of life.
Debasish Mridha
#98. So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets ...
Oscar Wilde
#99. We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Abram L. Sachar
#100. Growing old is God's privilege to you ... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine ... antiques are expensive and old wines taste best ... above all, it beats the alternative
DYING YOUNG. So cheer up and be grateful that God is giving you that privilege.
Peekey
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