Quotes and Sayings About Privilege

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
-- Abram L. Sachar

#Privilege #Difficulty

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
-- Adrienne Rich

#Moving #Our Words #Privilege

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
-- Albert Einstein

#Philosophy #Historical #Privilege

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.
-- Alberto Gonzales

#Needs #Clients #Privilege

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
-- Alexander Grothendieck

#Children #Discovery #Privilege

When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Needs #Predator #Privilege

The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Privilege #Unfair #Members

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.
-- Ali Partovi

#Privilege

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
-- Alice Hegan Rice

#Soul #Solitude #Privilege

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.
-- Alice Neel

#Mean #Privilege #Painting

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
-- Alice Waters

#Children #Community #Privilege

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist
-- Alice Waters

#Needs #Pesticides #Privilege

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
-- Alison Lurie

#Fashion #Inspiration #Privilege

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
-- Allen Johnson

#Responsibility #Earth #Privilege

Being a role model is a privilege.
-- Allyson Felix

#Role Models #Roles #Privilege

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Friendship #Adversity #Privilege

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

#Women #Parent #Privilege

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Mean #Adults #Privilege

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.
-- Andy Andrews

#Live Life #Choices #Privilege

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.
-- Angelina Jolie

#Thinking #People #Privilege

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.
-- Ann Romney

#Talking #Political #Privilege

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
-- Antisthenes

#Royal #Privilege #Ill

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Choices #Privilege #Ability

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
-- Antonia Fraser

#Firsts #Privilege #Never Forget

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa

#Honor #Democracy #Privilege

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
-- Aphra Behn

#Sex #Privilege #Poet

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
-- Ariel Gore

#Psychology #Privilege #Stuck

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.
-- Arlen Specter

#People #Pennsylvania #Privilege

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
-- Arthur Helps

#Men #House #Privilege

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
-- Ashley Judd

#People #Privilege #Yeah