Quotes with privilege

  • 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.
  • The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
  • I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
  • You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
  • To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
  • In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
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  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Joseph Addison 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Charles Lamb 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • William Faulkner A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bob Geldof And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Byron Dorgan I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Singer I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bob Latta It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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