Privilege Quotes
1269 quotes by 983 authors
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We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.
— Michelle Rhee
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We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure…
— Marshall Sahlins
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I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
— Jim Goldberg
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Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of…
— Jesse Jackson
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
— Ann Voskamp
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Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing,…
— J I Packer
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I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more…
— Peter Drucker
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The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
— Peter Drucker
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Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against…
— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
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Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and…
— Will Durant
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be…
— Plato
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A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies…
— Swami Vivekananda
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According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
— Liv Ullmann
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Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of…
— William George Jordan
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...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It…
— C.S. Lewis
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I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States, or candidate for…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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