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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.
I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.
If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges
Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.
Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.
It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.
That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can be and often are abused.
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.
Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.
We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.
One of the great privileges of my job as a curator is occasionally taking people up onto the roof of Hampton Court for a tour.
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President.
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.
True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.
The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
