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"The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery."
"The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege."
"By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society."
"Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself."
"You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it."
"The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel."
"I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste."
"How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant."
"Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions."
"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled."
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws."
"Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege."
"As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege"
"Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value."
"Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege."
"Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you."
"To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege."
"It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!"
"We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege."
"doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time"
