Privileged Quotes - Page 19

• Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time

  Wasim Akram

  Once In A Lifetime, Playing Cricket, My Time

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• There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

  Bruno Bauer

  Exclusive

  "Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works". Book ediited by International Publishers, 1975.

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• Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Class, Community

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Order, Victim

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

  Fannie Hurst

  Family, Stranger, Treats

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• But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

  Edna Ferber

  Way, Jew, Felt

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• We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

  Dick Gephardt

  America, Needs, Citizens

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• Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sweet, Agency, Evil

  "The Race of Life". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Regret, Medicine

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• I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Fashion, Medicine, Able

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• Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Political, Enemy, Esp

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• I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

  Andrew Buchan

  Actors, Garfield, Peter

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• Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social union.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Views, Order, Political

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.1, AK Press

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• The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

  Lowell Bergman

  Wind, Organization, People

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• As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

  Richard Carmona

  Doctors, Steps, Individual

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America's Youth" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Mean, People, Stories

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• The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Order, Law, Custody

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.7, Beard Books

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• It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Believe, Garden, Feelings

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• Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Class, Organization

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• ... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Baby, Art, Sex

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• It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.

  John Dos Passos

  Struggle, Power, Men

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.21, Transaction Publishers

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• The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

  Franz Kafka

  Worry, Facts, Privilege

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Talking, Want

  "Is Nothing Sacred?" (1990)

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• Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Men, Class

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• When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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