Privilege Quotes - Page 19

• The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Political, Campaigns

  "Mencken Chrestomathy".

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• Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Car

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It government is our servant, beholden to us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Arabia, Watches, Looks

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• The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Country, University

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Mean, Science, Special

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• We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, People, Age

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• Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Food, Health

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• I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Procrastination, Thinking, Imagination

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• It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Government, Leader

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• They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one

  Michael Davitt

  Done, Common, Republican

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• We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

  Haskell Wexler

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

  Sigmund Freud

  Animal, Company, Humans

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• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  Lake Bell

  Movie, Art, Brain

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Our World, Needs

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• Privilege does not operate without silence.

  Junot Diaz

  Silence, Doe

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• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Work, Haughtiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• This club is steeped in history and I feel privileged to have become a part of that ... An immense thank you to Sir Alex Ferguson for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain, to be inspired by the legend of Manchester United and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club.

  Patrice Evra

  Giving, Alex, Ferguson

  "Patrice Evra writes open letter to Manchester United fans following his move to Juventus" by Simon Austin, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2014.

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• Find time for thought, this is the source of strength.
  Find time for the game, this is the secret of eternal youth.
  Find time for reading, this is the Foundation of knowledge.
  Find time to be friendly, this is the road to happiness.
  Find time for dreams, they will pull your vehicle as the stars.
  Find time to love and be loved in return, this is the privilege of the gods.
  Find time to look around you, it's too short a day to be selfish.
  Find time to laugh this is the music of the soul.

  Giannis Ritsos

  Dream, Stars, Selfish

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• One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.

  Tamara E. Jernigan

  Clever, Successful, Space

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• It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.

  Hilton Hotema

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Hilton Hotema (1998). “Secret of Regeneration”, p.276, Health Research Books

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• My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

  Miranda Hart

  Hello, Dear, Reader

  "he battle of the celebrity memoirs" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Men

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• The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Economic, Relation

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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