(467 quotes found)
“It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.”
Morris Dees
“This is part of this judge's jihad against the assertion of privilege.”
David Bernick
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
Diogenes
“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.”
Bertrand Russell
“I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.”
Angelina Jolie
“First it was a right, then it was a privilege; they won't rest until it is a crime.”
George Gillburg
“What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration”
Henry Louis Mencken
“We want our own people, people who will fight tooth and nail for our interest and secure privilege for the under-privileged; people who will undo the wrongs done to our people ;people who will voice our grievances fearlessly; people who can think, lead and act; people with principles and character. Such people should be sent to the legislatures. We must send such people to Legislatures who will be slaves to none but remain free to their conscience and get our grievances redressed.”
B. R. Ambedkar
“Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license”
Woodrow T. Wilson
