Privileges Quotes · Page 2

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

— Hannah Arendt

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

— Benazir Bhutto

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

— Amira Hass

I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions…

— Bob Casey, Jr

Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's…

— Miley Cyrus

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when…

— Tavares Strachan

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they…

— Robert Reich

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction…

— Charles Tupper

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. So let us work towards a society where we would…

— Dwight D Eisenhower

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their…

— Steven Hatfill

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to…

— Marlon Brando

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities,…

— Andrew Jackson

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

— luvvie ajayi

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much?…

— Benjamin Franklin

Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component:…

— Paul Di Filippo

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male…

— Rita Dove

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own…

— William Cobbett

“As we drank champagne in the lounge, I explained that I had earned special privileges by being particularly vigilant and observant of…

— Graeme Simsion

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

— Mary Karr

“Life is the grand equalizer. It has a way of stripping those privileges, rendering them inconsequential.”

— Kennedy Ryan

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?

— Marjorie Liu

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

— Albert Camus

Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me…

— Ananya Birla

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“One client can fetch your business a thousand clients, depending on your performance and impression.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

— Jose Marti

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

— Helen Keller

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

— Jane Austen

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

— Abbi Glines

“One of the privileges of not knowing who you are is that you can pretend to be anyone you like.”

— Cameron Jace

“Always delighted to grab any privileges I can get, I don’t like the sense of being privileged by law.”

— Martha Gellhorn

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't…

— Gavid Hood

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.”

— DaShanne Stokes