A Quote by Terry Pratchett

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

Terry Pratchett

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Having Laws Means Private Privilege Privileged

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

Roxane Gay

If the privileged in society can use that privilege to privilege others, then the consequences can be tremendous.

Rohini Nilekani

Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes.

Barry Gardiner

One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and that means the Constitution. It means statutes. It means treaties. It means all of the laws of the United States.

Samuel Alito

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

Laura Wade

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Mikhail Bakunin

United States naturalization is a privilege not a right, and those who have had this privilege bestowed upon them must respect and uphold the laws of our land.

Lee Zeldin

I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.

Kirk Cousins

I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.

Paloma Elsesser

The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

Walter Darby Bannard

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

Trudie Styler

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry

People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.

Varun Grover

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

Ayelet Waldman

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.

Ellen Page

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