(467 quotes found)
“Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.”
Bill Clinton
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
William Faulkner
“Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.”
Phillips Brooks
“Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reaching the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the members of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his subordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.”
Immanuel Kant
“Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.”
William Penn
“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'”
David Hume
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
Peter F. Drucker
“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”
Cesare Pavese
