Privilege Quotes

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.