Privilege Quotes - Page 6

• Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

  Ezra Koenig

  Dad, College, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Interesting, Library

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• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

  Earl Warren

  Years, People, Upset

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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• No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Men, Doubt

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• In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Mean, Compassion, Giving Money

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• Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

  Bob Marshall

  Abortion, Magazines, Parenthood

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• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Philosophical, Genius

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• It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Music, Powerful, Play

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• O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Men, Thinking

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• Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

  James Monroe

  Religious, Godly, Men

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• Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

  Cadel Evans

  Sports, Australia, Enjoy

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• When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Native American, Men, White

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

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• With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wish, Literature, Beginning Middle And End

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.133

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• People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  People, Looks, Investing

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• Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman.

  Harry Yoxall

  War, Liars, Believe

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• We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law of obedience. We are under covenant to live the law of sacrifice. We are under covenant to live the law of consecration. It is our privilege to consecrate our time, talents, and means to build up his kingdom. We are called upon to sacrifice, in one degree or another, for the furtherance of his work. Obedience is essential to salvation; so, also, is service; and so, also, are consecration and sacrifice.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Mean, Angel, Sacrifice

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• The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Lying, Responsibility

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3638, e-artnow

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• To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the world have great affection and admiration for him. What a beautiful man he was and what a privilege to have been touched by him.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Beautiful, Wine, Men

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• There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Men, Trying, Saint

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hurt, Liberty, Analysis

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• Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

  William Beveridge

  Philosophy, Political, Scratches

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