Privilege Quotes - Page 8

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry

To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I don't come from a privileged background.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.