“I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities.” ThinkingShouldYearsCountryHouseWhiteWalksLevelsPlansMonthsSixCapacityPrivilegeBehaveWhite HouseSix MonthsCrybabies Author:Van Jones
“Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.” ThinkingProblemLevelsPayFieldsVictoryRight NowPrivilegeSolveBlockOur TimeExtrasIllegalSiteBetter PlacePlaying FieldsProvidersGreat VictoryService ProvidersLevel Playing Field Author:Tim Wu
“The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.” PeopleIfsChildrenSometimesTodayPainYoungDifficultWonderGenerationsDramaDifficultyPrivilegeHardshipDeprivedMy GenerationDifficult Life Author:Indira Gandhi
“I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.” MeanDoeMomentsFormGivenWishPrivilegeDominationMoments In TimeIntersectionality Author:Bell Hooks
“I literally cried on Lisa Joy's shoulder when it ended. Just, "Thank you." Because those roles [like Dolores in the Westworld] are few and far between. What an amazing opportunity. It was an honor and a privilege to get to bring it to life, and I hope she gives other people the strength that she's given me as a survivor and as a human. I don't even mean to make it just a woman's issue because obviously it's men and women, but it certainly is an epidemic with women.” PeopleMenGivingHumansMeanJoyOpportunityGivenRolesIssuesHonorMen And WomenPrivilegeShouldersSurvivorCriedEpidemicsAmazing Opportunities Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“It's been such a privilege and an honor to be writing this book [he Pleiadian Promise]. It's really changed my life, and it has absorbed my every waking moment for months. I'm going to be relieved to put that aside and just release it, because it's been a lot, not too much; it's been very glorious, but it has been a lot for me.” WritingHas BeensBookMomentsToo MuchChangedMonthsHonorPromisePrivilegeReleaseGloriousWakingRelievedChanged My Life Author:Christine McCormick Day
“In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in a country like the United States, It was white men who basically had the privileges - or, you name whatever country it is, there's some group of elites who, through various processes of democratization and things like the internet and the information that's available. It's exploding!” PeopleMenShouldCountryStatesAblePastNamesProcessWhiteUnitedUnited StatesGroupsInformationInternetPrivilegeVariousAvailableBe GoodElitesWhite ManExplodingDemocratization Author:Robert Greene
“To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.” AttentionPrivilegeAdam Author:Leonard Cohen
“I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.” CareersSonGratitudeSkillsPrivilegeAlbumsConclusionMy Son Author:Leonard Cohen
“I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.” KnowsKindChildrenDreamAmericaGrewBedQuietGrew UpPrivilegeSurfaceAmerican DreamQuiet Time Author:Bill Ayers
“There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.” IdeasPoliticalPrivilegeSuburbsApolitical Author:Bill Ayers
“Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.” WorldYearsSaidMomentsHomeSchoolHalfWake UpLeavingUniversityInjusticePrivilegeAwakeningFlamesBubblesMarineMerchantsMichiganPrepsSophomoreWake Up CallLeaving HomeSophomore YearUniversity Of MichiganMerchant Marine Author:Bill Ayers
“That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.” PeopleIfsWorldBookAmericaJoyDutyLibraryPrivilegeAmazing ThingsMost Amazing Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about. It's been a privilege.” FeelsIssuesPassionatePrivilege Author:Michelle Obama
“I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.” IfsEnoughWould BeNextGenerationsPlanetsShapesConcernPrivilegeGood EnoughNext Generation Author:Kate Bush
“Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.” NeedsUseEarthDealsProgressSpecialIndustryWasteFinancialPrivilegeAtmosphereFuelMinorsFossilsFossil FuelSweetheartSewers Author:Bill McKibben
“[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.” PeopleGivingMoralUniquePrivilegeDiscussionAestheticBeing Unique Author:Ai Weiwei
“It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.” PeopleBelieveCountryI BelievePresidentChanceWonderDyingSakePrivilegeFormerWorriedFree MarketInfluentialFree SocietyPeople Dying Author:George W. Bush
“A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.” PeopleKnowsMayHas BeensTwoUsedNextBlackKnownDoorsSpecialGrewGrew UpPaidPolicePrivilegeBlack PeopleInformingInformantsSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.” HumansStatesRunningChallengesHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesPrivilegePresidency Author:Rick Perry
“I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.” PeopleThinkingOpportunityAbilityPositionIndustryShotsPrivilege Author:Ava DuVernay
“Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.” PeopleYearsHas BeensAblePastHouseWhiteHalfMillionsDadJokesPrivilegeEightTreatedWelcomeCelebrateBarackHolidayWhite HouseGuestsChefCookiesOutstandingPastriesPastry Chef Author:Michelle Obama
“I have the best job in the world. There's not really a lot to moan or whine about. I've got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.” WorldJobsPrivilegeGoing OutBest Job Author:Boy George
“I've been around enough to realise that there are two things that once people have them, they don't want to give up, and it's extremely difficult to convince them to give up: one is privileges, and the other is subsidies.” PeopleWantGivingTwoEnoughDifficultGiving UpPrivilegeTwo ThingsConvinceRealisingSubsidies Author:Kofi Annan
“We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question the privileges.” EnoughVoicePoorPowerfulTalkingPrivilegeSubsidies Author:Kofi Annan
“President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.” FunPresidentChallengesExtraordinaryPrivilegeThoughtfulPresident Obama Author:Susan Rice
“I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.” ThinkingArtistWhiteResponsibilitySupportColorPrivilegeWhite SupremacySupremacy Author:Vivek Shraya
“As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages.” ShouldEnjoyResponsibilityMoralPrinciplesParticularDegreesAdvantagePrivilegeAgents Author:Noam Chomsky
“Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.” ShouldEnoughAnswersShareLuckyAskingPrivilegeFree Society Author:Noam Chomsky
“Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.” WealthPracticeSacredIncludingPrivilegeBitterDevicesInterpretationConsentUtilityDemonstrationManufacturingDespisedPascalJesuitSacred TextsReinterpretation Author:Noam Chomsky
“Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice, dishonesty, marginalization and exclusion in the academic world.” WorldEnoughHappensEasyEnjoyUniquePrivilegeUglyCategoriesUnusualAcademicDishonestyMaliceRepressionExclusionIllustrationMarginalization Author:Noam Chomsky
“Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.” HumansValuesGivenDealsCircumstancesLimitsWesternPrivilegeAccomplishObjectivesUnusualPredictionsHuman Will Author:Noam Chomsky
“Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.” MayGovernmentIndividualWealthGroupsSpecialPrivilegeGrants Author:Noam Chomsky
“When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.” LooksGovernmentLawFailingWeakInternationalPrivilegeJustificationAssertionInternational LawNew Government Author:Edward Snowden
“You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something that can be abrogated at its convenience. And that has diminished the measure of liberty within a society.” GovernmentLibertyRightsConceptsPrivilegeConvenience Author:Edward Snowden
“One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.” PeopleStatesSecretCasesOrganizationCourtPrivilegeAdministrationLegacyAssertionSaddestDetention Author:Edward Snowden
“If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.” IfsFirstsEndsUseWhiteClassProtectInjusticePrivilegeObligationGrantsProtect YouWhite PrivilegeClass Privilege Author:Ayelet Waldman
“A lot of people are worried that many of our rights and privileges we've come to expect as part of the American democratic process will be abandoned or restricted in some way. That is a valid fear and it makes it all the more important that people get together now to prevent any possible damage.” PeopleWayImportantTogetherProcessRightsDemocraticPrivilegeWorriedDamageAbandonedGet TogetherDemocratic ProcessRights And Privileges Author:Ezra G. Levin
“As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President.” WorldPresidentSecretSituationDangerousConcernedPrivilegeDetailsAround The WorldFormerSecret ServiceDangerous Situations Author:Jimmy Carter
“I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.” WantShouldPersonsCertainAreasPrivilegeConvincedNewspapersPrivacyEntitled Author:Paul Newman
“The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.” ThinkingCareRepublicanFundamentalsPrivilegeHealth CareDisagreement Author:Joe Biden
“I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.” BelieveSaidGovernmentI BelieveLibertyPrivilegeI Believe InProtectorDistributors Author:Paul Ryan
“Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.” PeopleIfsHappensWould BeAmericaLeftStreetsDangerDiseasePrivilegeRageExposedFascinatedThreateningLeft AloneNorth AmericaSmall Parts Author:William Gibson
“The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.” PoliticalOpinionClassMiddleEffectsVoteThirdsCourtBottomPrivilegeFavorsSupremeIncomeCorporateOrganizedMiddle ClassSenateConsistentlySupreme CourtDistributionConstituentsAffluentIncome Distribution Author:Bill Moyers
“If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.” PeopleIfsHardShowsCultureBlackWhiteEventsPrivilegeFavorsAwardsWhite PrivilegeAward ShowsWorking So HardBlack Culture Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all American. And if we allow those values, those rights to be rescinded for one group of individuals, then we are essentially opening the door to having all of our rights, all of our privileges rescinded.” IfsStatesTogetherRememberCertainValuesIndividualUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesRightsDoorsGroupsPrivilegeOpening Author:Reza Aslan
“For those people who fail to see the injustices that are occurring, in particular with the Muslim community, I think it's because you've sat in a seat of privilege for a long time, and you kind of choose to be myopic and not think of those people around you.” PeopleThinkingKindLongCommunityFailingParticularLong TimeInjusticePrivilegeSatSeatsMyopicMuslim Community Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal.” MenCausesEnjoyDifferencesRaceEqualRegardElectionPropertyPrivilegeNationalityDisadvantages Author:Joseph Stalin
“I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend freedom and promote the principles that make the world more peaceful. And those principles include human rights, human dignity, free enterprise, freedom of expression, elections.” WorldBelieveHumansHelpingAmericaResponsibilityPrinciplesRightsExpressionDignityElectionHuman RightsPrivilegePeacefulEnterpriseFreedom Of ExpressionHuman DignityFree Enterprise Author:Mitt Romney
“I have never been political, which for a straight white man that's kind of a byproduct of privilege growing up that I was kind of like, "Who cares who the president is, everything is coming up privilege." But now things are so scary and crazy and I have to say I'm not a fan of Trump at all. I don't agree with him in any way.” MenWayKindCarePoliticalPresidentWhiteGrowing UpGrowingCrazyFansTrumpAgreePrivilegeScaryWhite ManWho Cares Author:Pete Holmes