Privilege Quotes

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The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax… — Eric Kierans
Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources.… — Eric Kierans
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect. — Marvin J. Ashton
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of… — Pope Pius IX
According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her… — Louis de Montfort
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. — Edward Gibbon
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to… — Wilford Woodruff
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith. — William Arthur Ward
Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I… — Cynthia Leive
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that… — Vannevar Bush
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are… — Benjamin Franklin
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three… — James Madison
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the… — Alexander Hamilton
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! — May Sarton
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be… — Gordon Cooper
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the… — Marian Wright Edelman

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