Privileged Quotes - Page 11

• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Order, Morality, Separation

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Simple, Speaks Out

  "What is the proper place for religion in Britain's public life?", www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• To young men who are looking for an opportunity and who complain there is no opening for them, permit me to say this: 'Go where the poor and the under-privileged are. They will be glad to hear you. When you have learned to bless them, others will be calling for your services. Don't wait for opportunity to come walking up to you. Go to meet it.'

  James Gordon Lindsay

  Opportunity, Men, Waiting

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• When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

  Timothy Keller

  Racism, People, Hatred

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.60, Penguin

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• Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Opportunity, Diversity

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.127, Hoover Press

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• It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren't funny.

  Jenji Kohan

  Girl, White, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• There is only one class of men, the privileged class

  Albert Camus

  Men, Class

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.

  Charles A. Murray

  Government, People, Police

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

  Alex Ferguson

  Years, Trying, Standards

  "What Can One Learn About Management From Sir Alex Ferguson?" by Shivram Subramanian, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Miracle, Progress, Answers

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• I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

  Colin Cunningham

  Blessed, Character, Two

  "Colin Cunningham Talks FALLING SKIES Season 2, the Fun of Being the Antagonist, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2012.

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• New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

  Astra Taylor

  Media, Males, Looks

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• I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Quality, Achieve, Judged

  Robert K. Greenleaf (1998). “The Power of Servant-Leadership”, p.264, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Quality, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hard Work, Thinking, Play

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• The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from prison. I was amazed by his humility and his great sense of leadership... Mandela's character has shaped my life.

  Joyce Banda

  Character, Humility, President

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• I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who grew up with the internet and have grown up completely connected because, for me, people like me know what it was to struggle, but it wasn't a struggle. It was great! It was fantastic. The thrill of the hunt.

  Justin Broadrick

  Sorry, Struggle, Kids

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.

  Wendy McElroy

  Powerful, Believe, Class

  "The Great Lie" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2003.

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• Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Class, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “Annals of an Abiding Liberal”, Plume

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• What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Pregnancy, Mind, Holy

  Grantly Dick-Read (2004). “Childbirth Without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth”, p.247, Pinter & Martin Publishers

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• Life is a journey, and one thing's for sure: You don't see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We're privileged to be here, so instead of just using God's resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it - or at least leave it the same.

  Joel Cunningham

  Life, Journey, Littles

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