Privilege Quotes · Page 26

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

— P. J. O'Rourke

Being the first-ever NXT U.K. women's champion was just an absolute honor and privilege in itself.

— Rhea Ripley

I've been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.

— Anna Soubry

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive…

— Sam Ervin

Freedom is one of the priceless gifts given to man but we must fight everyday to claim it.

— Terry Mark

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

— Bill Toomey

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is…

— Primo Levi

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children…

— Wilford Woodruff

There was a huge movement that led up to [gay marriage legilization], and I played a small role in the great scheme…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe…

— Jupiter Hammon

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They…

— A. A. Gill

“But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and…

— James Loeb

Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in…

— Storm Jameson

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory…

— Pete Townshend

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, but we are not. Each day, ours is the challenge to access the power…

— Russell M. Nelson

History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just…

— Antony Hegarty

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,…

— Hannah Arendt

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is…

— Bocafloja

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

— J.R. Miller

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

— C. Everett Koop

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

— Michelle Rhee

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

— Franz Grillparzer

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an…

— Edward Norton

I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and no one should go bankrupt trying to afford coverage.

— Raphael Warnock

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

— Alison Lurie

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

— Tertullian

I've had the privilege of wearing so many incredible costumes on 'Bridgerton,' especially in season three.

— Nicola Coughlan

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

— William Shakespeare

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a…

— Bart Stupak

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

— Sarah Ruhl

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is…

— Scott Woods

Thankfulness is difficult to express when one starts with an attitude of entitlement.

— Chris Tiegreen

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know,…

— Big Daddy Kane

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Freedom ”

— Charles Evans Hughes