Privilege Quotes · Page 20

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

— David Geffen

It's your right to own a gun. It's a privilege to own a car.

— John Popper

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

— Daphne Koller

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

— J.R. Ward

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.

— Edward Heath

“Failure is not an option. It’s definitely a privilege for those who try. .”

— Raj Kosaraju

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

— Anton Yelchin

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

— George S. Patton

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who…

— Thomas S. Monson

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out…

— Lake Bell

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

— Allen Johnson

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

— Rose Macaulay

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do…

— Barbara Jordan

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people,…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

“But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? Gives you an idea how I feel about you.”

— John Green

I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual -…

— Marilyn Frye

Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them…

— Brigham Young

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless…

— Anna Quindlen

“I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They…

— Cheryl Benard quoting Shahla Asad

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever…

— Susan Sontag

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole…

— Jose Marti

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me…

— Marco Rubio

Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood.…

— Allen Tate

People expect your life to change completely. The main difference is I can get work now. I can do my hobby as…

— Jeremy Irvine

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition,…

— Ross Douthat

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I've really been sort of focused on acting and I feel really lucky because great projects sort of keep coming my way.…

— Mandy Moore

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line.…

— Luvvie Ajayi

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me…

— Eva Ibbotson

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

— Bernie Sanders

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

— William Beveridge

A woman's love is a man's privilege, not his right.

— Alexia

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

— Melanie Fiona

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

— Doug Henwood

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and…

— Ernie Harwell

It is an honor and a privilege to participate in the Sinai Forum, which has graciously hosted many formidable men and women…

— Margaret Cuomo

We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.

— Bob Menendez