Privilege Quotes

“much privilege leads to bad manners,”

— Danzy Senna

“Joblessness is a rare privilege”

— Sunday Adelaja

I prize the privilege of being alone.

— Carl Rogers

Happiness is a privilege, not a right

— Taylor Williams

“What a privilege to pray?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to privilege the moment.

— Gregory Crewdson

“Hope is the privilege of the weak.”

— Gasmaskman

It's a real privilege to make movies.

— Kathleen Kennedy

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

— Anonymous

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

— Abram L. Sachar

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

— William Faulkner

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

— May Sarton

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

— Martin Firrell

“And it’s not just a command; it’s a privilege.”

— Johnny Carr

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

— Louise Bourgeois

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

— Pliny the Elder

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

— George Eliot

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

— David Lammy

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and…

— Anonymous

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Jose Marti

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be…

— Alberto Gonzales

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

— Woodrow Wilson

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,…

— Voltaire

To know that anybody would go out and buy my jersey or get my jersey as a gift, that's something I don't…

— Justin Tucker

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something…

— Teri Hatcher

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our…

— Faye Wattleton

I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first…

— Edgar Mitchell

“Feeling that our demands were moderate, I had assumed that they would be granted with little question; I had believed that the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran,…

— Nicky Gumbel

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to…

— Michael Moore

“We believe some people are more special, more beautiful, more capable, more influential, more intelligent, more gifted, and have a greater capacity…

— John Lewis

Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it.…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all…

— Reza Aslan

I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and…

— Barack Obama

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to…

— Roxane Gay

I've got to say that when you're able to work with people like this, whether it's Gareth or Guillermo or Zack Snyder…

— Thomas Tull

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers…

— Herman Melville

The government being the people's business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view.…

— Anonymous