Privilege Quotes

• During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Always
  • Privilege

• 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
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Historian

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  

  Bono U2
  • Studio
  • Servants
  • Melodies

• A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Free
  • Privilege
  • License

• There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Involved
  • Privilege
  • Great Commission

• Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Strong
  • Privilege
  • Independance

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Ease
  • Entitlement

• Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Lie
  • Intellect
  • Breed

• The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Want
  • Question
  • White

• However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Interest
  • Values
  • Privilege

• Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Immoral
  • Strict
  • Yale

• When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • Society
  • Hands
  • Example

• 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.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Music
  • Words
  • Ideas

• ... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

  

  David Foreman
  • Beautiful
  • Something
  • Privilege

• It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Play
  • Just
  • Privilege

• Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Stupid
  • Privilege
  • Abuses

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

  

  Milo Yiannopoulos
  • Culture
  • Working
  • Events

• It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feeling
  • Passion
  • Loved

• Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Sex

• Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Teacher

• I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

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

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Englishmen

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