Privilege Quotes - Page 39

• All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Women, Gone

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pain, Silence, Doubt

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Enthusiasm, Faithfulness, Aim

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.9

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• Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Three, Rewards

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Government, Views

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The Royal Art”

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

  Diana Trilling

  Pain, Design, Attention

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Office, President, Answers

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• The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Running, Errands, Treasure

  'The Gondoliers' (1889) act 2

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• It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

  Alan Bennett

  Taken, Civilization, Safety

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• . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Kindness, Prayer

  William Wordsworth (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Prayer, Answers, Venture

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• There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.

  Aldo Leopold

  Girl, Growing Up, Animal

  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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• I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

  Marilyn Frye

  Morning, Heterosexuality Is, Class

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

  John M Swomley

  Government, Justice, Support

  John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious liberty and the secular state: the constitutional context”

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• Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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• Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Forever, Survival, Asking

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• To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Reality, Men, Suffering

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• Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

  George Vaillant

  Opportunity, Three, Talent

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• I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Actors, Intense

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• I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

  Matt Damon

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

  Novak Djokovic

  Unique, Chance, Talent

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• I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Unions, Marriage And Family

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• I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

  Neil LaBute

  Guy, Fit, Looking Good

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• Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

  Steve Buyer

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Our Veterans

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