Privilege Quotes

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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine… — Allen Tate
The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally… — Gordon Tullock
In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of… — Elwyn Brooks White
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except… — John Thomas Sladek
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead… — George Bernard Shaw
Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job. — Sarah Burton
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man… — Walter Lippmann
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. — Mark Twain
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. — Jane Austen
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the… — Elizabeth Bowen
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,… — Lucy Larcom
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore… — William Jennings Bryan
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind… — Gunter Grass
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether… — Diana Trilling
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its… — Richard M. Nixon
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State. — W. S. Gilbert

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