Privilege quotes
434 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased."
"Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it."
"The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person."
"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."
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"We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state."
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege."
"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."
"The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have."
"Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege."
"Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong."
"Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?"
"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."
"Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit."
"It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars."
"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."
"Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms."
"Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege."
"The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have."
"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act."
"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
"Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases."
"Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world."
"Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed."
