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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

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

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands. — Vincent Massey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges. — Nalini Singh

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. — Amy Dickinson

The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged. — H.L. Mencken

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress. — Sophie Marceau

Gender and class are different. Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one. — Charles Dickens

Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom. — Frank Herbert

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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