Privilege Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Years, House, Heaven

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• Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.

  John Flavel

  Spiritual, Son, People

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• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Perspective

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• Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

  George Wein

  Home, Rhode Island, Islands

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• Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Initiative

  Seth Godin (2012). “V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone”, p.26, Penguin

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• People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Men, People, Desire

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• Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Knowing, Individuality, Action

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• The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Men, Blood

  1812 An Address to the Irish People.

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• We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Lord, Torture

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Leader

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• Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

  Ernest Holmes

  Giving, Birth, Limitless

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

  Gerda Weissmann Klein

  Survival, Painful, Burden

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• In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

  Mark Mirabello

  Suggestions, Complaining, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

  Julio Frenk

  Care, Commodity, Humans

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the benefits. We've sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it's appalling. I'm sickened by this bargain.

  Lierre Keith

  Thinking, Civilization, Rest Of Life

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• So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

  Paul Bettany

  Children, Support, Earning

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• I want nothing to do with privilege.

  James Gandolfini

  Want

  "Family secrets (part 2)" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that Ive had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitzs play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

  Bob Saget

  New York, Play, Three

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• My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

  Bryan Cranston

  Country, Thinking, Political

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• I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Voice, People, Inspire

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• If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Space

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• For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Blessed, Hunger Poverty, Despair

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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