A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. ~By Charles Tupper ~
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. ~By Charles Kuralt ~
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. ~By Kay Granger ~
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. ~By Twyla Tharp ~
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege. ~By David Geffen ~
I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am. ~By Michael Moriarty ~
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 ~
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? ~By Bob Geldof ~
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then. ~By Antonio Banderas ~
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. ~By Rene Cassin ~
The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure. ~By Hank Brown ~
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live. ~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection. ~By Alberto Gonzales ~
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. ~By Norman Borlaug ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. ~By Alex Grey ~
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. ~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged. ~By Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao ~
I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech. ~By Loretta Swit ~
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 ~
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined. ~By Allen Johnson ~
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. ~By J. Robert Oppenheimer ~
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love. ~By Orlando Bloom ~
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed. ~By Steve Buyer ~
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 ~
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who? ~By Kathleen Parker ~
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 ~
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~By Katherine Mansfield ~
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor. ~By Thomas Menino ~
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 ~
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. ~By Jean Giraudoux ~
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world. ~By Dizzy Dean ~
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 ~
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. ~By Mwai Kibaki ~
I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission. ~By Claude Nicollier ~
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 ~
A free public broadcast license is a privilege. ~By Bart Gordon ~
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made. ~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ~By Gregory Peck ~
I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours. ~By Byron Dorgan ~
For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am. ~By Kate Bush ~
I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life. ~By Enya ~
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. ~By William Hurt ~
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 ~
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. ~By Judith Martin ~
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 ~
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. ~By John C. Ransom ~
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future. ~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
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 ~
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ~By Jacques Barzun ~
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction. ~By John Cory ~
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. ~By Amy Tan ~
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. ~By Barbara Stanwyck ~
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ~By Nahum Tate ~
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you. ~By Pat Roberts ~
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. ~By Jane D. Hull ~
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. ~By Charles Eames ~
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ~By Thomas Paine ~
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. ~By John L. Lewis ~
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. ~By Rose Schneiderman ~
Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot. ~By Jack Klugman ~
We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another. ~By Silvan Shalom ~
We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.' ~By Tim Johnson ~
What a privilege it is to be an American! ~By Thomas Starr King ~
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege. ~By Jonathan Carroll ~
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 ~
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special. ~By Morris Dees ~
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ~By Gunther Grass ~
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
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 ~
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. ~By Sidney Altman ~
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. ~By Edward Zwick ~
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 ~
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. ~By Daniel Radcliffe ~
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. ~By Andrew Jackson ~
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color. ~By Danny Glover ~
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. ~By John Owen ~
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. ~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult. ~By Bianca Jagger ~
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. ~By Bobby Scott ~
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. ~By Jose Marti ~
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ~By Hesketh Pearson ~
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 ~
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. ~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me. ~By Jupiter Hammon ~
The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you. ~By Tom Mann ~
I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point. ~By George Stoneman ~
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 ~
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. ~By John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. ~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status. ~By Tammy Bruce ~
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