Privilege Quotes

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If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain… — Bill Bryson
Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the… — Koren Zailckas
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson
Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. — J.R. Miller
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I… — Oscar Wilde
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They… — Michael Ondaatje
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You… — Oscar Wilde
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it. — Bertrand Russell
a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he… — Jack Kerouac
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart — Jane Austen
All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I… — Megan Whalen Turner
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. — Che Guevara
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a… — Ray Bradbury
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas… — E L Doctorow
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite — Miley Cyrus
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest… — David O. McKay

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