Privileges Quotes · Page 2

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Jose Marti

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

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

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

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

— Albert Camus

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

— Marjorie Liu

I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality…

— Ariel Pink

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus…

— Tony Campolo

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion…

— George Steiner

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and,…

— Pete Ploszek

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax…

— Charles Koch

“when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to…

— Jon Meacham

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down…

— Libba Bray

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and…

— Jamie Johnson

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

— Andrew Jackson

People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute…

— Allen W. Wood

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel…

— Richard Eyre

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I…

— Amy Chua

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

— Clemence Dane

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

— Anonymous

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

— Anand Giridharadas

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.

— Anonymous

There are very few who have the privileges I have, and, therefore, it is essential that we give back to society.

— Ajay Piramal

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

— Benazir Bhutto

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— DaShanne Stokes