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The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations — Aldo Leopold

then p'r'aps we may get into what the 'Merrikins call a fix, and the English a qvestion o' privileges. — Charles Dickens

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them,
that is another matter ... — Lilian Whiting

She might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked. — Elizabeth Gaskell

There is no equality while privileges enjoyed by the many are denied to the few. — Robert Cubitt

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges. — Hannah Arendt

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you. — DaShanne Stokes

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway. — Gloria Naylor

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper. — Tom Clancy

I never came into life with any favours or privileges. — Ken Livingstone

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty. — Robert Owen

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. — Milton Friedman

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago. — Roscoe Pound

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. — Jose Marti

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. — John F. Kennedy

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights. — Clemence Dane

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. — Jack Vance

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise. — Carlos Slim

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges — Dwight L. Moody

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term. — Samantha Power

The day I am unaware of my privileges and unmoved by my greed is the day something has to change. — Jen Hatmaker

I learned this living among a people whom I would never have chosen, because the privileges of being black are not always self-evident. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them. — Matthew Henry

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world — Alison Lurie

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know. — Gavid Hood

Without some framework, some resources, even your secret aspirations just curdled into sentimental bullshit. — Jonathan Dee

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power. — Nick Hanauer

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson

we cannot focus on God and on ourselves and our presumed rights and privileges at the same time. — Marguerite Shuster

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful. — Colin Ward

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges — Walter Scott

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. — Edward Zwick

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. — Thomas Carlyle

Every grotesquely rich American represents property, privileges, and pleasures that have been denied the many. — Kurt Vonnegut

joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet. — Robert A. Heinlein

Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite — Miley Cyrus

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. — Abram L. Sachar

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right. — William Penn

Privileges of age, size, and ass-kissing. If you survive this conversation, you'll find that it's just the same in most of the big gangs. — Scott Lynch

Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. — Hannah Arendt

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. — Todd Akin

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. — Samuel Johnson

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. — John Fowles

Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King Jr.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. — Jean Giraudoux

It was unthinkable to sell land, was to sell communal privileges or commute labor services and bonds of serfdom for a money rent. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience. — Evan Esar

People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged. — DaShanne Stokes

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. — Theodore Roosevelt

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults. — Sherry Turkle

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Franklin D. Roosevelt

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money. — John Randolph Of Roanoke

One of the privileges of being on our own is therefore the sincere impression that we are really quite easy to live with — Alain De Botton

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself. — Martha Roth

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults. — Michelle Rhee

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility. — Peter Drucker

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some. — Mason Cooley

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart — Jane Austen

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. — Natalie Clifford Barney

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. — Clive James

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we're a lawyer, an artist or a police officer. — Robert Wringham

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ... — Constance Fenimore Woolson

Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat. — Edith Wharton

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities. — Albert Camus

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human — Tim Hansel

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back. — Martha Stout

Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

As children of God, one of the privileges we have is believing the impossible. — Joyce Meyer

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. — DaShanne Stokes

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges. — Benazir Bhutto

Your human privileges are being revoked, asshole. — Susan Ee

The weaker the man in authority ... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. — Austin O'Malley

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality — Charles De Gaulle

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high. — Christopher Hitchens

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges. — J.B. Priestley

General state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By — George Orwell

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

One of the privileges of not knowing who you are is that you can pretend to be anyone you like. — Cameron Jace

[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love. — William Ian Miller

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges — Abbi Glines

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges. — Mason Cooley

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. — Arianna Huffington

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. — Leonard Woolf

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose. — Chris Brady

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. — William George Jordan

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense. — Paul Craig Roberts

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws. — Terry Pratchett

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. — Harper Lee