Quotes of Privilege - somelinesforyou

“ None can love freedom heartily, but good men… the rest love not freedom, but license. ”

- John Milton

“ Freedom is from within. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ 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. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. ”

- Bible

“ To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. ”

- Neil Young

“ But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. ”

- Liv Ullmann

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

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

“ None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants. ”

- John Milton

“ I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's a privilege to be able to look you in the eye and say thank you. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ”

- Unknown

“ The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man. ”

- Tennesse Claflin

“ Oh, what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh, what an unspeakable privilege is prayer! ”

- Lady Maxwell

“ Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. ”

- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

“ It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles… ”

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

“ We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. ”

- Jodi Rell

“ 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 know that these were good children. ”

- Bill Owens

“ The only privilege literature deserves — and this privilege it requires in order to exist — is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. ”

- Unknown

“ The weaker the man in authority… the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ”

- Austin O’Malley

“ Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ”

- Unknown

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

- Samuel Johnson

“ Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity. ”

- Oprah Winfrey
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