Ability Quote by Joseph Hertz

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

— H. L. Mencken

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

— Lincoln Steffens

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

— Germaine Greer

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws…

— Mahatma Gandhi

People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

— Anton Yelchin

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle…

— Mircea Eliade

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm…

— John Stuart Mill

Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though…

— Anonymous

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

— Rajneesh