privilege quotes

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti’s example.

Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.