Top 1200 Class Privilege Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

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

We no longer have a significant middle class in the US due to Barack Obama's job-killing ban on oil drilling in Zion Park. While a small middle class remains in the coastal blue states, our tax bill devastates them by curbing deductions for state and local taxes and large mortgages. In a few years, everyone except the 1% will be a tricklee.

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

Only when we recognise our privilege, we will be able to make a change for others.

It's been a great advantage and a privilege to have the Tagore surname. Wherever you go, you are recognised.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it.

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around. You never really get rewarded in class for being funny. You're a disturbance. But the funny kid is often witty and clever and quick... they finally get a chance to express themselves when they get out of school.

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that.

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

The 'Batman' franchise is iconic and its a privilege to now be able to visualize it in my own way.

When you get world-class investment, you get world-class results.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

People of Baltimore, if you want to simply learn a new trade, if you want to join the Foundry, it's a membership. It's like joining a gym, and you can go and meet other entrepreneurs like you. You can talk about how to get financing. You can take a class on how to sew. You can take a class and say, 'I want to be an electrician.'

It's always an honor and a privilege to play in front of supporters from the club I grew up with.

The only privilege star kids enjoy is a good launch. That, of course, is important.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

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

I was never able to be a part of U.S.A. Basketball in high school or college. So for me, it's a privilege.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.

I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.

As the MP for Islington South and Finsbury, I have the privilege of representing one of the most diverse constituencies in the U.K.

It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

The greatest privilege God gives to you is the freedom to approach Him at any time.

It was a privilege to meet Rev. Jackson, and I learned a tremendous amount from his insight.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Barack Obama's class has always been an illusion clouded in faculty lounge, lizard lounge talk, and Michelle Obama's class has actually been told us by the media that it exists, but there isn't any. There isn't anything that's real. Everything on the left is a fraud. Everything on the left is a lie.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

It's a great privilege to be part of a club like United, and I'm keen to do my best and show what I can do.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

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

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.