Privileges Quotes

260 Privileges quotes by 213 unique authors

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. — Jean Giraudoux
My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try… — Junot Diaz
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold… — Buenaventura Durruti
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. — Lou Holtz
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in… — Daniel Day-Lewis
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them,… — John L. Lewis
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of… — Max Lucado
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has… — Eric Liu
I never came into life with any favours or privileges. — Ken Livingstone
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. — Jose Marti
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. — H. L. Mencken
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves… — Henri Nouwen
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges.… — Major Owens
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term. — Samantha Power
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. — Phyllis Schlafly
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights… — Noah Webster
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here… — Julian Baggini
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,… — Leo Tolstoy
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to… — Carter G. Woodson
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and… — Robert A. Heinlein
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of… — Benjamin Rush
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the… — Booker T. Washington
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more… — John McCain

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