P Quotes
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“Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people.”
“Private sincerity is a public welfare.”
“Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.”
“Private Tours and Excursions with Detour Roatan, that offer exciting and unique tours with Fishing Charters, Famous Suspension Bridges and more with Affordable prices”
“Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).”
“Private victories precede public victories.”
Source: Principle Centered Leadership
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.”
“Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.”
“Privately I've always considered myself to have some talent for measuring a woman's mood. But the expression on (her) face is forcing me to reconsider. Not blank, but the opposite. Regret coexisting with pride, with hints of resentment, joy, frustration, shame, resignation, and curiosity. When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons”
Source: God Hates Us All
“Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Privately there were some things in Heaven of which she did not quite approve. There was too much singing, and she didn’t see how even the Elect could survive for very long the celestial laziness which was promised. She would find something to do in Heaven.”
Source: East of Eden
“Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and internationally, for millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster.”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.”
“privation is the cause of appetite”
Source: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings
“Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World”
Source: Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin
“Privatisation of government-owned enterprises is crucial to the project [neoliberalism]. One of the appealing features of tax cuts for neoliberal governments is that reduced revenue provides them with an excuse to sell state assets to meet the sudden budget shortfalls. The sale of state assets creates more lucrative business opportunities for the corporations that can afford to buy such things as power stations, water treatment plants, telecommunications providers, government banks and airlines. It's something of a windfall for a business to acquire an asset that will always deliver a return so long as citizens still need things like water or power supplied to their homes, a bus to catch from one place to another, or a telephone connection. And - unlike a state-owned asset - a private corporation never has to adjust its services due to democratic prompting from the electorate. Why do power prices keep going up across Australia? Because most of the power supply is now owned and operated by private corporations. They're free to price gouge on the supply of an essential service, because they can't be voted out of office.”
Source: On Fairness
“Privatisation of government-owned enterprises is crucial to the project [neoliberalism]. One of the appealing features of tax cuts for neoliberal governments is that reduced revenue provides them with an excuse to sell state assets to meet the sudden budget shortfalls. The sale of state assets creates more lucrative business opportunities for the corporations that can afford to buy such things as power stations, water treatment plants, telecommunications providers, government banks and airlines. It's something of a windfall for a business to acquire an asset that will always deliver a return so long as citizens still need things like water or power supplied to their homes, a bus to catch from one place to another, or a telephone connection. And - unlike a state-owned asset - a private corporation never has to adjust its services due to democratic prompting from the electorate. Why do power prices keep going up across Australia? Because most of the power supply is now owned and operated by private corporations. They're free to price gouge on the supply of an essential service, because they can't be voted out of office. p.58-9”
Source: On Fairness
“Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.”
“Privatised power companies that profit from a fossil-fuel-generated energy supply are obviously resistant to politicians promising to build and operate the infrastructure of renewable energy. The owners of a private bus company, or a pay-per-use toll road, do not want the government to build you a local train station.”
Source: On Fairness
“Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.”
“Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.”
“Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.”
“Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.”
“Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.”
“Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.”
“Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department”
“Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.”
“Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.”
“Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.”
“Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.”
“Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.”
“Privilege comes in levels, Brit,” he continued. "You have the privilege he has given you. But you will never have the privilege he has just because he breathes.”
Source: In Every Mirror She's Black
“Privilege does not operate without silence.”
“Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.”
“Privilege exists not to be stored in a locker.”
Source: The High Auction
“Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do. Access to privilege doesn’t determine one’s outcomes, but it is definitely an asset that makes it more likely that whatever talent, ability, and aspirations a person with privilege has will result in something positive for them.”
“Privilege increases the odds of having things your own way, of being able to set the agenda in a social situation and determine the rules and standards and how they're applied. Privilege grants the cultural authority to make judgments about others and to have those judgments stick. It allows people to define reality and to have prevailing definitions of reality fit their experience. Privilege means being able to decide who gets taken seriously, who receives attention, who is accountable to whom and for what. And it grants a presumption of superiority and social permission to act on that presumption without having to worry about being challenged.”
Source: Privilege, Power, and Difference
“Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.”
“Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.”
“Privilege is invisible to those who have it.”
“Privilege is just another word for not having to care.”
“Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.”
Source: Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity
“Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.”
Source: Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
“Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.”
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”
“Privilege is saving confederacy statues because they're 'historic' but bulldozing through ancient sacred sites & artifacts for pipelines.
(8/18/2017 on Twitter)”