Privilege Quotes - Page 34

• It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Philanthropy, Obligation

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• The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Sex, Firsts

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

  Alan Watts

  Grateful, People, Track

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

  Louis Kahn

  Book, Light, Offering

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• To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Smart, People, Who Cares

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• White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, People, Choices

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• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Income, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

  Henry George

  Slave Owners, Special, Aristocracy

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Rewards, Moments

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Passion, Biblical

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• Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Way, Ministry

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• What a great privilege it is to be here

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

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• You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Perfect Parents, Return

  "Praying Circles Around Your Children". Book by Mark Batterson, 2012.

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• There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

  Bill Bright

  Men, Calling, Helping

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• Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Promise, Delight

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• Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

  Tim Hansel

  Miracle, Everyday, Special

  Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

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• Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Men, Race

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.45, Routledge

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• Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.

  John Calvin

  Men, Heaven, Grace

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

  J. I. Packer

  Adoption, Offers, Highest

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• It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Saved, Knows

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• Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

  Stephen Charnock

  Religious, Nature, Son

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Government, Justice

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

  Charles Edison

  Men, Promise, Groups

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