Privilege Quotes
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.
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I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.
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People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
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It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
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I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't speak for all gay people.
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It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
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I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.
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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
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I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
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When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
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I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
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Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.
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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
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The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
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The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?
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There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
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I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
