Privilege Quotes
1269 quotes by 983 authors
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When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're…
— Tim Winton
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Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl'…
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
— Woodrow Wilson
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all…
— Harry Yoxall
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We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the…
— Margrit Mondavi
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There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit…
— Lorenzo Snow
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The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
— William Beveridge
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Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
— Noam Chomsky
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First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we have delivered to…
— Ron Paul
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does…
— Mother Teresa
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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
— Mark Twain
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Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
— Benjamin Tucker
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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
— Abraham Lincoln
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