It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone. — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
There's a kind of intimacy that can happen between musicians, and if they're people you enjoy and respect as humans, that intimacy… — Sunny Ozell Copy Share Image
To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps,… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them,… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,'… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
“Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
