Privilege Quotes - Page 28

• One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Reputation, Surprising

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Winter, Play

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.88

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• Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

  Walter Scott

  Caring, Worry, Care

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• So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

  Catherine Marshall

  Success, Compassion, Understanding

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

  Allen Johnson

  Responsibility, Earth, Given

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

  Robert Henri

  Purpose, Alive, Paint

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Form, Intellect

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.34, Vintage

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• You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it.

  Tom Seaver

  Honor, Special, Chance

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• I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.

  Cary Elwes

  Mother, Blessed, Character

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• It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.

  Charles Brent

  Moving, Humility, Goes On

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• A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all is experienced as an opportunity and a privilege to venture and grow.

  James Arthur Ray

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, May, Deny

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• The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Issues

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  Pythagoras

  Mother, Sorry, Philosophical

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• No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Earth, Four

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

  Vincent Massey

  Humility, Hands, Promise

  "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of British Columbia, May 18, 1954, 1959.

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• The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Alternatives, Married

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Honest

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, People, Faithful

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”

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• I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Men, Order

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• In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Years, Passing Away

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• The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Heaven, Likes

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 3

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