What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
~By Kurt Huber ~
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.
~By Gordon Cooper ~
I privilege the music over the lyrics.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
~By John J. Sirica ~
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
~By Jose Marti ~
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
~By John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ~
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering.
~By Ethel Rosenberg ~
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
~By Plato ~
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
~By May Sarton ~
I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.
~By Neil LaBute ~
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
~By Major Owens ~
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
~By Charles Lamb ~
I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.
~By Loretta Swit ~
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.
~By Mark Mobius ~
The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.
~By Hank Brown ~
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
~By Robert Sternberg ~
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
~By David Geffen ~
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we've received.
~By Kathryn Anastos ~
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
~By Todd Akin ~
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
~By George Stoneman ~
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.
~By Gray Davis ~
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
~By Bryan Singer ~
A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
~By Bart Gordon ~
I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
~By Enya ~
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
~By Charles Edison ~
Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
~By Claude Nicollier ~
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.
~By Robert Chambers ~
Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
~By Mark Rydell ~
I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
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.
~By Thomas Starr King ~
We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
~By Judith Martin ~
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
~By John Edward Christopher Hill ~
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
~By David Hume ~
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
~By Paul Nurse ~
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
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.
~By Sidney Altman ~
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.
~By James Inhofe ~
I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
~By Debbie Gibson ~
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
~By Richard Scaife ~
It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
~By Laurel Lee ~
I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.
~By Jim Lampley ~
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
~By Robin Morgan ~
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.
~By Timothy West ~
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
~By Pat Roberts ~
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
~By Preston Brooks ~
The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
~By Matt Blunt ~
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
~By Jay London ~
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
~By Liv Ullmann ~
It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
~By Emily Watson ~
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
~By Nahum Tate ~
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
~By David Deutsch ~
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
~By Diogenes ~
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
~By Sam Ervin ~
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.
~By Bob Saget ~
Make health care a right, not a privilege.
~By Ed Pastor ~
I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.
~By David Beckham ~
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
~By Ethel Waters ~
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
~By Bill Toomey ~
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