Barriers Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

— John F. Kennedy

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege…

— Hamza Yusuf

“Verbal virtuosities or the gratuitous expense of time or money that is presupposed by material or symbolic appropriation of works of art, or even,…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

— John D. Rockefeller

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of…

— Anonymous

“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.”

— Joseph Befumo

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from…

— Samuel Johnson

We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege…

— Meena Harris

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

— Anonymous

“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or…

— Andrew Carnegie

The duty of priviledge is absolute intregity

— John O'Donohue