Privilege Quotes - Page 4

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

Being a role model is a privilege.

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.