Privileged Quotes - Page 7

• I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Father, School, Way

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• It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Uncles, Mind, Genius

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• Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Office, Empowering, May

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• I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

  Richard E. Grant

  Girl, Fun, Acting

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• The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Light, Opposites

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.214, Random House

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• Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

  Primo Levi

  Hero, Men, Views

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• You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

  James Agee

  Fall, Justice, Risk

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin

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• Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.

  Ann Richards

  Believe, Years, Gasoline Prices

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• I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.

  David Beckham

  Play, Careers, Fifa

  "Beckham says sorry". www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2004.

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• It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.

  Kayla Mueller

  Caring, Important, Done

  "CIA probes ISIS claim Jordanian airstrikes killed US aid worker", www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2015.

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• The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

  James Morcan

  House, Community, Wealth

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• A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

  Bill Kurtis

  Issues, Community, Understanding

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• It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Average, Liberty

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Cat, White, House

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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• The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Support, Cost, Demand

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• Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

  Jimmy Reid

  Jobs, Boys, Government

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

  Judy Woodruff

  Past, Media, Years

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• I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

  Xanana Gusmao

  Believe, People, Occupation

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• My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

  Denise Mina

  Class, Parent, Odd

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

  Denise Mina

  People, Feminism, Phds

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• There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

  James Fox

  People, Assumption, Made

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• But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Acumen, Investing, Information

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• Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

  Evita Peron

  Country, Children, President

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• What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Unique, Thinking

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