Privilege Quotes
1269 quotes by 983 authors
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Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you…
— Marilyn Monroe
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It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands of women all…
— Cassandra Clare
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But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so…
— Sarah Vowell
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within…
— Terence McKenna
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Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything…
— C.S. Lewis
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Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge…
— Eva Ibbotson
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As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who…
— Antonia Fraser
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Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
— John Green
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid.…
— John Green
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
— James A. Baldwin
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Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
— Kohta Hirano
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Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair…
— Suzanne Collins
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It's been a privilege to be here.
— Paul Newman
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The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
— Steven Pinker
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he…
— John Green
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God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one.…
— Libba Bray
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
— George Orwell
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