Privilege Quotes

• Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Needs
  • Privilege
  • Holiness

• The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Young
  • Servant
  • Knights

• I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Job
  • Think
  • Hard

• I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Create
  • Fears
  • Unhappiness

• Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

  

  Angelica Ross
  • Privilege
  • Places
  • VIsibility

• Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Solitude
  • Privilege
  • Necessity

• Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

  

  Keith Crown
  • Vision
  • Looks
  • Sight

• It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Falsehood
  • Organisms

• There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Being
  • Privilege
  • Growing Older

• In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Stupid
  • Right
  • Privilege

• Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Influence

• Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Job
  • Think
  • Gift

• 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

  

  Stephen Bruce
  • Wanted
  • Fantastic
  • Could

• I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Consider
  • Privilege
  • Fortunate

• I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Alive
  • Privilege
  • Spiritually

• ... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Persons
  • Stage
  • Crisis

• It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Day
  • Wake Up
  • Privilege

• What a great privilege it is to be here.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Great
  • Here
  • Privilege

• Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the racist event.

  

  Eileen O'Brien
  • Responsibility
  • Balance
  • Racism

• It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

  

  George B. Cortelyou
  • Success
  • Republic
  • Founders

• The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans.

  

  Eugene Dubois
  • Humans
  • Considered
  • Upright

• It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

  

  Anne Sullivan Macy
  • Growth
  • Watch
  • Privilege

• Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

  

  Ali Partovi
  • Privilege
  • Available
  • Techie

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