Privileges Quotes

260 Privileges quotes by 213 unique authors

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what… — Jennifer Weiner
I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things… — Jonathan Franzen
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this… — H. L. Mencken
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man,… — Henry Miller
Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties… — Jonah Goldberg
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all… — Joseph Heller
a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he… — Jack Kerouac
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart — Jane Austen
Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite — Miley Cyrus
And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.”… — Nora Roberts
She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges. — Nalini Singh
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks… — Libba Bray
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in… — Leo Tolstoy
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the… — James A. Baldwin
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that… — Booker T. Washington
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. — Helen Keller
This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges — Abbi Glines
Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none — Thomas Jefferson

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