Privileges Quotes
260 Privileges quotes by 213 unique authors
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We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life…
— Eve Curie
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Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.
— Jack Vance
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There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
— Leonard Woolf
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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
— John Owen
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This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that…
— John F. Kennedy
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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the…
— Tony Campolo
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is…
— George Steiner
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When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of…
— Corazon Aquino
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I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects…
— Charles B. Rangel
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Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability…
— Jim McGovern
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Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations,…
— Charles Koch
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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges…
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things,…
— Steven Hatfill
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One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the…
— Bill Nelson
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It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
— Thomas Starr King
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We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material…
— Sidney Altman
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But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an…
— Sophie Marceau
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There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture…
— Richard Eyre
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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
— Mary Karr
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits…
— Eric Idle
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Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man has to wake up from this sleep and to understand that he has a way though which he can end this vileness called human…
— Sorin Cerin
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we…
— Patrick Henry
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Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.
— Samuel Johnson
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. So let us work towards a society where we would do unto others…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who Wrote These Privileges Quotes
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