Privilege Quotes - Page 13

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

Never live beneath your privileges.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

I am privileged to have played basketball.

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.