Top 1200 Class Privilege Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

Acting is a privilege, and I'm exceedingly blessed to be able to do what I do. At the end of the day, it's all entertainment.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

I am very proud to be playing for Milan. It's always a privilege for me.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

It's a privilege to be a football manager, even when you've been beaten or you're bottom of the table.

There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.

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

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Robert Altman was such an incredible person to have the privilege to know and meet and have dinner with.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

I like all the types of supposed work that I do. It's a privilege: I can't believe I get paid for it.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.

Most filmmakers, if not all, come from a place of privilege, if only because of the expense.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

Yes, just by the nature of the colour of my skin, I was born with privilege. And it is unfair.

I've never looked at my job as pressure. It's always been fun, a privilege.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

Some people will always be volunteers to explore, and it is, in my mind, a privilege.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit