Quotes on Privilege

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.