Privilege Quotes

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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.

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

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.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours!

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.