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“In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.”

Men Mean Has Beens Made Whole Government Able Groups Special Fields Particular Capitalism Competition Privilege Granted Free Market Monopoly

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Should Believe Fun Process Enjoy Music Is Ideals Sticks Privilege If You Believe Learning Process Ideal World

Author:Kate Bush

“Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Christ Accepting Benefits Privilege Covenant

Book:The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole

Source: The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole

“All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.”

Thinking Men Self Law Rights Ought Please Creatures Privilege Dues Noble Preservation Laws Of Nature Possessing Qualifications Self Preservation Unalienable Rights Rights And Privileges

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.”

Long Doe Individual Enjoy Liberty Exercise Privilege Interfere Peace And Happiness

Author:David O. McKay

“It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.”

People Needs Jobs Process Realizing Teach Support Honor Privilege Learning To Trust Need Strength

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.”

Helping Community Support Rights Becoming Equal Members Labor Claims Privilege Dependent Equal Rights Subsistence

Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

“I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.”

Way Happens Grows Growing Up Privilege Thank God Make It Happen

Author:Kim Basinger

“Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.”

Able Cities New York Produce Creatures Privilege Los Angeles Wealthy

Author:Vaginal Davis

“The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.”

World Different Reason Play Reality Privilege Genre Different Worlds Different Genres Different Realities

Author:Lake Bell

“A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.”

People Long Doe Able Energy Ability Achieve Subjects Position Becoming Privilege Objectives Pursue Release Ambitious Free Society Suppressing

Author:Milton Friedman

“I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.”

Stills Asks One Day Photographer Privilege Magazines Designer Looking Forward Knights Walkers

Author:Chanel Iman

“While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.”

“The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.”

Century Privilege Vedas

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!”

Able Asks Existence Intellectual Ears Asking Privilege Proof Existence Of God

Book:The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

“It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.”

“By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.”

Wells May States Hands Steps Duty Stronger Privilege Improving Honored

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.”

Giving Highest Privilege

Book:The Meaning of Gifts

Source: The Meaning of Gifts

“Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.”

Knows Privilege Headache

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van [Morrison] on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.”

Firsts Littles Chance Records Baby First Time Blue Privilege Versions Chocolate Arrangements Vans Vocal Second Chance Garage Djs Audio Erikson

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.”

Thinking Way Moving Suffering Essentials Privilege Shakes Cracks Calamity Complacency

Author:Pico Iyer

“You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.”

Thinking Knows Men World Humans Stills Sometimes Helping Sides Watches Directors Exciting Asking Privilege Excited Gore Sparrows Asking For Help

Author:Keira Knightley

“I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole life.”

Knows Whole Kids Absolutes Privilege Whole Life

Author:Thomas Tull

“I've got to say that when you're able to work with people like this, whether it's Gareth or Guillermo or Zack Snyder or Chris Nolan, it's a privilege to do this and I've never lost the awe, the awe factor of just going in and watching peoples reactions to what you've spent, in a lot of cases, years working on. That's a good way to put it, I love what I do and it's a privilege to do it.”

People Way Years Able Lost Cases Privilege Reactions Factors Awe Good Way Nolan

Author:Thomas Tull

“It's a privilege. It's a real honor. It's a challenge. Michael and I always feel we stand on tall shoulders when we make these films. Audiences come to them with a lot of good will because of what's come before. We just try to make the best film we can, each time, and hope that we satisfy the fans. I'm sure, with Skyfall, that we will. I think it's a terrific film. I hope the audiences enjoy it, as much as we've enjoyed making it.”

Thinking Feels Trying Real Film Enjoy Challenges Audience Fans Honor Privilege Shoulders Enjoyed Tall Terrific Good Will Best Film Skyfall

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say, "I really want to write about this, and I really am interested in this," and for them to say, "Yes," and give you the money to make it.”

Want Giving Writing Ideas Able Groups Privilege Executives

Author:Ryan T. Murphy

“The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.”

Giving Has Beens Government America Pay Special Security Taught Theory Return Taxes Benefits Privilege Population Income Splits Income Tax Distributors

Author:John Stossel

“The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.”

Firsts Humans Two States Individual Crime Conscience Privilege Dare Commit Guilty Folds

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.”

Giving Advice Easier Privilege Spheres

Book:The Gathering Storm

Source: The Gathering Storm

“President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."”

Spirit President Our Lives Saint Privilege Snow Manifestation Latter Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.”

Given Grows Parent Born Poor Growing Up Easier Empathy Luck Privilege

Author:Melinda Gates

“I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.”

Privilege Expected Secretary Defence

Author:Bob Ainsworth

“I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.”

“I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.”

Persons Doe Actors Speak Voice Responsibility Special Citizens Limits Vote Silent Privilege Profession Speaks Out Muzzle

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.”

Years Littles Forget Privilege Right Wing Accusation

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.”

Mean I Can Given Enjoy Situation Conscious Privilege Luxury

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.”

Enjoy Records Perspective Photograph Privilege Encounters Makers Traveler Storyteller Tourists Subjectivity Anthropologists Timelines Colonists

Author:Susan Meiselas

“Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.”

Millions Bed Died Privilege Deny Molotov Henchmen

Book:Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990

Source: Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990

“Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.”

Way Needs Should States United Education United States College Revolution Higher Privilege Fund Higher Education Tuition College Tuition

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.”

Ifs Book Privilege Contracts Publishers Deadline

Author:Marchette Chute

“Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When we tap into living experience, we no longer feel as though we must be king. We can just be ALIVE at work! When we live in the bliss, there is no difficulty which is insurmountable. If we miss the bliss, there is no compensation which is adequate.”

Ifs Feels Alive Missing Kings Difficulty Privilege Possession Bliss Adequate Ongoing Compensation Ecstatic Insurmountable

Author:Laurence Boldt

“Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.”

Thinking Knows Kids Actors Growing Up Growing Particular Grew Grew Up My Friends Patient Privilege

Author:Matt Damon

“When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.”

Matter Opportunity Team Position Honor Majors Organization Privilege Managers League Major League Dodgers

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.”

Persons Doe Stage Ought Crisis Photographer Privilege Stealing Luxury Granted Thieves

Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.”

Different Church Leader Greater Army Catholic Salvation Privilege Divides Baptists Inspiring Leader Methodists Lutherans Pentecostal Salvation Army

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the music from the Kino Kultura album i.e. the soundtrack music I've been doing. It is difficult to organise them all and to have those people for a certain date since they all have their own obligations and arrangements. It is a great privilege to gather all those musicians at one place, especially these that I work with, since they perform regularly abroad, at weddings or are working somewhere else.”

People Bigs Certain Difficult Pleasure Groups Band Musician Privilege Albums Obligation Performing Arrangements Somewhere Else Soundtracks

Author:Vlatko Stefanovski

“I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.”

Age Comfortable Privilege Elegance True You

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.”

People Needs Trying Believe I Believe Process Understanding Community White Color Accounts Add Historical Privilege Checks Interaction

Author:Bocafloja

“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."”

People Want Trying Form White Attention Responsibility Color Like You Conscious Lays Privilege Patterns Checks Accounting

Author:Bocafloja

“When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.”

People Knows Community White Race Majority Privilege Access Discussion Latin Mexico Mexican Institute

Author:Bocafloja