Privilege Quotes - page 2

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. (Oscar Wilde)
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne). View quote
Hilaire Belloc
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation. And that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. View quote
Charles Lamb
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive In a human body at this moment, Endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, And the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. View quote
Alex Grey
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. View quote
Liv Ullmann
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. View quote
Hesketh Pearson
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. View quote
Charles Kuralt
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. (Dino De Laurentiis)
I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege. View quote
Mary Chapin Carpenter
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor. View quote
Thomas Menino
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter. View quote
Will Friedle
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. View quote
Antonin Scalia
I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy. View quote
Grace Hopper
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings. View quote
Henry Dunant
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. View quote
Ralph Steadman
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. View quote
Augustus
If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders. (Dorothy Day)
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. View quote
François Arago
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves! View quote
François Arago
Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege. View quote
Simone Weil