Privileged Quotes - Page 15

• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

  Helen Thomas

  White, House, Journalism

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• In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

  Bella Abzug

  Pain, Passion, Justice

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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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• Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

  Diane Keaton

  Jobs, Stars, Guarantees That

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• Peak oil: The over-populated UK's ability to feed and supply itself for our privileged lifestyle requires the land and resources of other nations. Against a background of depleting oil resources, this is a dangerous strategy

  Phil Harding

  Land, Oil, Strategy

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• I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

  Michael Moriarty

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• Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

  Sidney Altman

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Government

  Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, War, Home

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Sweet, Freedom, Men

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• One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Illumination, Media

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• Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

  J. I. Packer

  Calling, Glory, Power Of God

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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• Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Reality, Men, Names

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• But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

  Anthony Marra

  Numbers, Miracle, Quota

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.51, Random House

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• Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  Father, Honor, Wish

  FaceBook post by Roy Yamaguchi from Jun 15, 2014

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• 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.

  Robert Reich

  Powerful, Government, Class

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• Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Selfish, Adjectives, Millennials

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• Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Week, Holy

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

  Susan Sontag

  Perspective, Exotic, Association

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• [I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England households, who really never had a chance to flower and assess themselves and find out who they were. More than anything, I wanted to give voice to the sort of anger that women of that generation could never express for themselves.

  Tina Howe

  Mother, Flower, Voice

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• This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

  Joseph Story

  Military, Men, Law

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Rights, Class

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• The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Tyrants, Mind

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 25 (1889)

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• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

  Beilby Porteus

  Hero, Numbers, Murder

  William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283

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