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  • We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

  • Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage
  • Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

  • I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.

    Children   Mean  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

    People  
    John Grisham (1999). “The client: the street lawyer”
  • The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.

    Voice   Support  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

  • With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

  • Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

    Class  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.

  • One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

    Class  
    Essays in the Theory of Employment "An Economist's Sermon" (1937)
  • I am privileged to have played basketball.

  • God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

    Smith Wigglesworth (2016). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year”, p.50, Destiny Image Publishers
  • To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

    Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
  • I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

    "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.
  • I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.

    Art  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

    Years  
    "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.
  • As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

    Trying  
  • We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

    "World summit in quotes". Hugo Chavez's remarks at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, news.bbc.co.uk. September 4, 2002.
  • Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.

    Mean  
    Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.127, Hoover Press
  • I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

    Class   People  
    'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 8
  • Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

    Ben Shapiro (2013). “Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future”, p.13, Regnery Publishing
  • It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

    Girl  
    Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK
  • Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

    Art  
  • 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.

  • I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

    People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

    Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
  • Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time

  • I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.

    Source: scottlondon.com
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