Privilege Quotes

“much privilege leads to bad manners,”

— Danzy Senna

“Joblessness is a rare privilege”

— Sunday Adelaja

Happiness is a privilege, not a right

— Taylor Williams

I prize the privilege of being alone.

— Carl Rogers

“What a privilege to pray?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Being a role model is a privilege.

— Allyson Felix

It's a real privilege to make movies.

— Kathleen Kennedy

“Hope is the privilege of the weak.”

— Gasmaskman

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

— Pliny the Elder

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

— Louise Bourgeois

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

— Johnny Carr

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

— Martin Firrell

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

— May Sarton

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

— William Faulkner

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

— Abram L. Sachar

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

— Anonymous

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

— Abraham Lincoln

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

— Billy Graham

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and…

— Mark Rydell

I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of…

— Abhijit Banerjee

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

— Norah Vincent

“Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

— Tony Campolo

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

— John Godfrey Saxe

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his…

— Warren Farrell

Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter…

— Peter Capaldi

It's a privilege to serve in Washington, D.C., but I never lose sight of what the Lord has called me to do…

— Mike Pence

I don't discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I'm…

— Zoe Perry

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I…

— Teju Cole

What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then…

— Howard W. Hunter

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that…

— Lillie Devereux Blake

“We live a life of privilege. That doesn’t mean we can literally switch off these women, whose only fault was being born…

— Maria Semple

The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a…

— A. Whitney Brown

“One of the chief factors in progress is the destruction of special privilege. The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has…

— Teddy Roosevelt

Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When…

— Laurence Boldt

Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that…

— Boyd K. Packer

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he…

— John Locke

“Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege,…

— Roxane Gay

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust…

— Thomas Jefferson