Top 492 Privileges Quotes & Sayings

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

Never live beneath your privileges.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."

It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."

All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come here and can enjoy privileges that were fought for by African Americans over several generations.

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.

It is wrong for the federal government to deny benefits or privileges to couples who have lawfully wed.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

There are very few who have the privileges I have, and, therefore, it is essential that we give back to society.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute a deep hole they need to climb out of if they are to prevent its being the case that the world would have been better off if they had never been born.

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.