Privilege Quotes · Page 32

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

— Brad Mehldau

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

— John Green

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and…

— Robin Farina

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

— Norman Cousins

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

— John Fowles

You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must…

— Tom Seaver

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

— David Bailey

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness…

— Farrah Gray

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document…

— Ronald Reagan

The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a…

— Jon Ronson

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It…

— Byron Dorgan

I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the…

— Bill Ayers

This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination…

— Richard A. Falk

My film-making is the privilege of French cinema. I would have to do things totally differently elsewhere. But I think I could…

— Celine Sciamma

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

I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because…

— Herbert von Karajan

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…

— Rudolf Rocker

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to…

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

— Roscoe Pound

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the…

— James F. Twyman

“Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others; it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment…

— John C. Maxwell

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

— Lou Holtz

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in…

— Vincent Massey

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

— Anonymous

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

— Michael Graves

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

— Simone Weil

I like all the types of supposed work that I do. It's a privilege: I can't believe I get paid for it.

— Lucy Worsley

This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a…

— John David Washington

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

— Warren Zevon

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

— Diogenes

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had…

— Nelson Mandela

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

— Kevin DeYoung