Privilege Quotes - page 25

[Churchill's wartime menus] show him slurping bottles of whisky, champagne [and] brandy with every sumptuous meal, while the underclass fought and starved for the privilege of poverty and unemployment. Thankfully, the Germans bombed Glasgow back to full employment. Even in the 1960s Earl Mountbatten was prosecuted for adding water to the milk on his farm so you can imagine how the landed gentry 'rationed' themselves during the war. (Ian Brady)
I'm basically interested in intervention. The key question for me is: how can you intervene more systemically? Systems approaches make the assumption that things are interconnected. That's the fundamental starting point. However, we don't have the privilege of a God's eye view of that interconnectedness, so there are inevitable limits to understanding, and it is those limits that we call boundaries. So systemic intervention, for me, at a fundamental level, is how to explore those boundaries, and how to take account of the inevitable lack of comprehensiveness and begin to deal with that. View quote
Gerald Midgley
The Republican Party is strong enough to dare to do right and cannot afford to shirk a duty. The colored men North and South were loyal to the Government in the days of its greatest peril. There was not a rebel or a traitor to be found among them. They ask the privilege of citizenship now that slavery has been forever banished from our country. Why should the great freedom-loving State of Iowa longer deny them this right? No one reason can be given that has not been used to bolster up slavery for the last hundred years. The war that has just closed has swept that relic of barbarism from our land; let the Republican Party have the courage to do justice...I have no fear of the result in a contest of this kind. We shall carry the election and have the satisfaction of wiping out the last vestige of the black code that has long been a disgrace to our State. View quote
Hiram Price
I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do. View quote
Eric Cantona
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. View quote
Tommy Lee Jones
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. View quote
Tommy Lee Jones
Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man. View quote
Chinmayananda Saraswati
Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids. View quote
Matt Damon
I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth. View quote
Matt Damon
But the tyranny of custom, like all other tyrannies, when grown quite unbearable-for it is wonderful what people will endure-; had already sown the seeds of its own dissolution. Out of the hardship had grown the repining, and to repine at the exercise of an alleged right is soon to question its authority, and the first question asked shakes the whole ancient and time-honoured fabric of privilege. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Byron idealised and expressed that bitter spirit of discontent which has at the present moment taken a more material and tangible form. He is the incarnation of November. From time immemorial it has been an Englishman's privilege to grumble, and Byron gave picturesque language to the universal feeling. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff. View quote
Lewis Black
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. View quote
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. View quote
Garrison Keillor
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated. View quote
Lucan
ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The proposition is that aristocrats (Lavoisier's class) and Jews (Einstein's race) are unfit to enjoy the privilege of living in a modern society founded on definite principles of social welfare as distinguished from the old promiscuous aggregations crudely policed by chiefs who had no notion of social criticism and no time to invent it. (George Bernard Shaw)
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. View quote
Tori Amos
Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. View quote
Tori Amos
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere. View quote
S. J. Perelman