Privilege Quotes - Page 17

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

Privilege does not operate without silence.

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.