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"Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege."
"I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why."
"As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages."
"It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong."
"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human"
"Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth."
"In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice."
"I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive."
"He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry"
"To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak."
"For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts."
"Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."
"It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos."
"I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium."
"The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it."
"I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all."
"As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind."
"The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries."
"There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself."
"I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens."
