Privilege Quotes - Page 11

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

What a great privilege it is to be here

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.