Privilege Quotes

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The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! — Hiroko Sakai
Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all… — Omer Bartov
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. — Amos Bronson Alcott
It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man. — Jean de la Bruyere
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. — Pierre Trudeau
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about… — Charles Caleb Colton
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. — Charles de Gaulle
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's… — Michael J. Fox
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. — Al Franken
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? — Bob Geldof
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. — Jean Giraudoux
I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all. — Billy Graham
It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL. — Wayne Gretzky
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind… — Alex Grey
I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege. — Sean Connery
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. — Calvin Coolidge
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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