The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth–hoped for and celebrated in all the newspapers, invoked by zealous bureaucrats in every self-serving television...

If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn’t that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because...

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold...

A speeding fine lets me know it’s OK to break the law, just so long as I’m willing pay money for the privilege to do so.

Stop thinking about class, she’d say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It’s a great privilege.

The biggest privilege I’ve had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can’t be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the...

It’s easy to fictionalize an issue when you’re not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the...

The first time he had taken the massa to one of these “high-falutin’ to-dos,” as Bell called them, Kunta had been all but overwhelmed by conflicting emotions: awe, indignation, envy, contempt, fascination, revulsion—but most of...

Aristocracy’s only an admission that certain traits which we call fine – courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing – can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don’t...

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege...

I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It’s a privilege to play with him: he is breathtaking at times.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not...

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

People often call fighting discrimination being “PC” because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged.

It’s a privilege to be an actor, as it’s not work – it’s a job.

As difficult an environment as the DA’s Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.

I didn’t have the privilege of knowing Isaiah. And I didn’t know the boy that we buried yesterday or the child that we buried on Tuesday and Monday or Sunday or Saturday. But I do...

I seduce women by making women feel like they are seducing me. And I allow them to pay for that privilege. And as we all know, you value what you pay for more than what...

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She...

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy...

Jeff is the glue to my team. I’d say he’s the smartest player I’ve ever had the privilege of coaching. He’s really a two (shooting) guard, but we have to play him at point because...

You’ve had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can’t stand on your own legs?

…After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise...

So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make...

Le mensonge n’a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l’unique privilège des misérables.

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture – the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a...

It’s a privilege to be asked, … People I talked to asked me, ‘Do you know how special that is?’

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Privilege” is something else.”Privilege” is a judgment.”Privilege” is an opinion.”Privilege” is an accusation.

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her...

Being a role model is a privilege.

Oh, bullshit. This isn’t one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of the tongue or misuse of sacred cutlery, and bang, he’s on the grill....

It’s a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

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.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life...

It’s mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.