Privileges Quotes

260 Privileges quotes by 213 unique authors

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its… — Richard M. Nixon
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the… — Alan Bennett
I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are… — Marilyn Frye
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls,… — Aldo Leopold
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see… — Clifford Whittingham Beers
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. — Todd Akin
I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for… — Erin Gruwell
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these… — James Inhofe
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at… — Kurt Huber
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to… — Chris Cornell
If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the… — Abraham Lincoln
I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other… — Natalia Vodianova
I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an… — Wallace Stegner
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. — Abram L. Sachar
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it… — Hans Arp
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the… — Samuel Johnson
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges — Walter Scott
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands. — Vincent Massey
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. — Theodore Roosevelt
One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. — Amy Dickinson
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about… — Charles Caleb Colton
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan

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