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“You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.”

World Children Food Privilege Your Children Participating Buyers

Author:Joel Salatin

“To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.”

World Trying Consciousness Privilege Senses Gorgeous Fever

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses

“The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.”

Class Privilege Possession Pursuit Perceive Monopoly Possessing Oppressors

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.”

“God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse)”

World May Might Law Spirit Order Situation Saws Kings Findings Glory Intelligent Privilege Midst Discourse Institute Exalted Power Of Knowledge

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?”

Men Ideas Habit Intellectual Privilege Familiar Accomplishment Faculty Immense Composition Arranging

Book:The woman in white

Source: The woman in white

“my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds) of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)”

Ifs War Self Dream Eye Used Mother Dies Fighting Courses Father Talking Sweet Lays Privilege Knees Shirts My Sister Mud Aunt Sock Lucy Your Smile Etcetera

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”

Important Law Exercise Prepared Privilege Be Prepared

Book:An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work

Source: An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

Inspirational Lifetime Privilege Authenticity Introvert Authentic Self Memories Dreams Reflections Being Authentic

Author:Carl Jung

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.”

Knows World Giving Understanding Evolution Privilege Deeper Intellect Core All Time Colleagues Thrill Newton Watson Deeper Understanding Polymaths Tutorial

Author:Richard Dawkins

“A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.”

Should Lost Path Alive Risk Bears Privilege Obstacles Minorities Buried Stranded Avalanches

Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.”

People Littles Country America Young Lost Simple Comfort Prison Privilege Affection Appreciation I Realized Granted Enjoyed Took For Granted

Author:John McCain

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”

People Ifs World Giving Writing Made Book Hard Character Stories Reading Research Abuse Down And Library Privilege Noses Hard Times Pipe

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.”

Giving House Rights Design Privilege Factories

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.”

“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”

Humans Law Justice Human Beings Demand Mercy Competition Privilege Libertarian Health Care Live By Rats Peace And Justice Supply And Demand Roaches Justice And Mercy

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.”

Term Deals Numbers Pay Beats Understood Decided Privilege Caught Accepted Communist Prisoner Preaching Severe Forbidden Pay The Price

Author:Richard Wurmbrand

“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.”

Ifs Want Community Differences Justice Privilege Recognition Beloved Beloved Community

Author:Bell Hooks

“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!”

“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”

Humans Body Earth Opportunity Given Wish Animal Brain Capable Paid Infinite Species Privilege Warm Ruins Atmosphere Finite Dominion Corrections Human Species Conceiving

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt”

Men Long Winning Enjoy Forget Died Privilege Enjoyed Franklin Bill Of Rights Rights And Freedoms Labor Union

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”

Humans Talking Mankind Privilege Nonsense Sole Organisms Talking Nonsense

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”

Men World Law Values Forever Rights This World Ideals Privilege Noble Unattainable Rights And Privileges

Author:H. L. Mencken

“We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.”

Wells Stories Privilege Hearing

Book:Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.”

Should Moving Tears Privilege Seeking Uplifting Posts Narrative Racist Fascism Fabric Superiority Vicious Register Blackness Moving Beyond

Book:April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

Source: April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

“Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.”

World Values Culture Privilege Carrie Better Off

Book:Soul Of The Fire

Source: Soul Of The Fire

“So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?”

Ifs Should Moral Sacred Privilege Ugly Believer Gods Will Ugliness Respectable Immunity

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

Years Ten Labor Patience Privilege Kicking Mules

Book:Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris

Source: Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”

Country Facts Military Arms Citizens Highest Army Soldier Privilege Obligation Citizenship Bearing Arms Inspirational Military Military Soldier

Author:George S. Patton

“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”

Self Country Born Ability Duty Pride Proud Discipline Soldier Privilege Self Confidence Obligation Superiors Self Respect Units Comrade Good Soldiers

Author:George S. Patton

“Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.”

Ifs Trying Country Enough Used Fighting Responsibility Accepting Sacrifice Willing Privilege Cease Good Enough Troops Comrade Millennium

Author:Eugene B. Sledge

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

Ifs Needs Littles Helping Pay Privilege Little Things Need Help

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.”

Thinking Should States Government Turns Pay Liberty Exercise Should Have Privilege Determine Whim

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Self Social Creation Duty Claims Independent Privilege Dependent Arrogant Brutes Insperational Self Contained

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.”

Ifs Way Looks May Has Beens Done Jobs Given Privilege Offering Faithfulness Somewhere Else

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.”

Kind Wanted Lasts Chance Four Twenties Privilege Missions Accomplished Rejects Unusual Asylums Stripping Last Chance Mission Accomplished

Author:Diablo Cody

“To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

Ideas Done Class Benefits Privilege Absurd Tennis Owners Prize Medal No Money Trophies Olympic Medals Yossarian Class Privilege

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.”

Mean Law Privilege Privileged

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”

Feels Littles Said Privilege Proof Superiors

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”

Ifs Way Humans Kind Mean Book Universe Courses Enjoy Ability Existence Talent Lessons Lucky Achievement Appreciate Privilege Multitudes Living Things

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.”

Whole Girl Gone Ill Privilege Tongue Cute Pens

Author:Koren Zailckas

“A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.”

Thinking Book Pleasure Century Dresses Privilege Antiques Quaint

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.”

Life Is Joy Privilege Makers Cheer Doing Good

Author:J.R. Miller

“It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country”

Men Giving Country Use Feelings Romance Passion Class Privilege Idle Picture Of Dorian Gray

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.”

World Years Two War Three Rich Protect Smart Years Ago Privilege Belonging Honour Locked Smarter Trust Me Being Smart Civilised

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”

People Should Firsts Country Use Romance Passion Class Laughing Privilege Stores Idle Exquisite

Book:The picture of Dorian Gray/Le portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The picture of Dorian Gray/Le portrait de Dorian Gray

“The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.”

Privilege Luxury Free Will

Author:Bertrand Russell

“a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

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