Privilege Quotes - Page 20

• Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege.

  Hisham Matar

  Book, Fire, Giving

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

  Alice Waters

  Children, Food, Health

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• I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Procrastination, Thinking, Imagination

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• It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Government, Leader

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• They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one

  Michael Davitt

  Done, Common, Republican

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• We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

  Haskell Wexler

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

  Sigmund Freud

  Animal, Company, Humans

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• The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

  Hosea Ballou

  Humility, Men, Bows

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• There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Heaven, Littles

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• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  Lake Bell

  Movie, Art, Brain

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Our World, Needs

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• Privilege does not operate without silence.

  Junot Diaz

  Silence, Doe

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• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Work, Haughtiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Philanthropy, Obligation

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• The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Sex, Firsts

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

  Alan Watts

  Grateful, People, Track

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

  Louis Kahn

  Book, Light, Offering

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• To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Smart, People, Who Cares

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• White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, People, Choices

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• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Income, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

  Henry George

  Slave Owners, Special, Aristocracy

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Rewards, Moments

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Passion, Biblical

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