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“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”

Knows Philosophy Duty Historical Privilege

“Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.”

Ifs Believe Persons Funny Sin Inspiring Crime Suicide Don't Believe Privilege

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands of women all over England would pay handsomely for the privilege of such an opportunity. Can we put aside the display of your wit for a moment? This is important.”

Wells Said Important Moments Opportunity Pay Silence England Privilege Wit Broke Display Me Alone

Author:Cassandra Clare

“But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.”

“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”

Stills Social Planets Majors Incredibles Privilege Luxury Portions Bubbles Apocalypse Mind Blowing Blowing It Insulation

Author:Terence McKenna

“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.”

Doe Has Beens Stills Moving Humanity Behinds Alive Train Leaving Privilege Stations Phases Always Moving

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.”

Men Opportunity Given Privilege Testament New Testament

Author:Tony Campolo

“There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.”

Men Spirit Given Holy Men And Women Privilege Holy Spirit Testament New Testament Old Testament

Author:Tony Campolo

“Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.”

Said Hard Remember Fall Realizing Study Praying Please Beats Let Me Busy Sake International Privilege Autumn Defeated Spain Pursued Exam Sparrows Ruth

Book:The Morning Gift

Source: The Morning Gift

“As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!”

Firsts Given Forget Responsible Privilege Never Forget Carpet Salute Carriages Marie

Book:Marie Antoinette

Source: Marie Antoinette

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

Mind Heart Would Be Stars Grace Broken My Heart Heartbreak Romantic Faults Privilege Heart Break Augustus Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars Augustus Waters

Author:John Green

“Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.”

Ifs Wells Heart Courses My Own Trouble Judging Constant Privilege Pursue Folly Agitation

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

“It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?”

Said Whole Kids Hate Survival Percent I Hate Twenties Rate Privilege Bullshit Eighty

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”

Men World Long Real Ends Self Moments Dream Able Loss Known Greater Imagine Identity Higher Safety Privilege Surrender Pity Breakup Bitterness Daring Possessed Self Pity Real Change

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.”

People Humans Humanity Gains Privilege Mortality Rejected Resignation Footpaths

Author:Kohta Hirano

“Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best.” Then she hastens from the room.”

Knows Looks Doe Has Beens Whole Shows Hands Eye Rooms Like You Hair Determination Skins Fingers Privilege Flying Makeup Pale Nails Tattoo Absent Teammate Cinna Take My Hand

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“It's been a privilege to be here.”

Privilege

Author:Paul Newman

“The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.”

People Thinking Interest Realizing Privilege

Author:Steven Pinker

“Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.”

Men Giving Feels Said Ideas Privilege Shirts Old Man

Author:John Green

“God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.”

People Made War Reason Three Stupid Privilege Magazines Throwing Godly Trash Grandma Invoke Jennifer Straight Up Monica Pointers

Author:Libba Bray

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Said Whole Hands America Growing Wonderful Stage Youth Privilege Obsession Buying Old People God Knows Glorify North America Growing Older

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”

Country Class Sun Land England Privilege Silly Snobbery

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.”

Way Said Responsibility Grace Privilege Roller Coaster Coasters Augustus Hazel Grace Augustus Waters

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?”

Men Should Dies Willing Privilege Starving Saving Money Willing To Die

Author:Dalton Trumbo

“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.”

Humans Reason Happiness Joy Laughter Species Privilege Confined Human Species

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.”

Shots Vote Privilege Revolutionary Beaten Deprived Black Power

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“His guilt is why Acheron went out of his way to make sure that all of you had servants and pay for your work. The Dark-Hunters owe that man everything, and I do mean everything. He pays in blood every time one of you wants to go free, and he suffers every day so that you can all live your cushy little lives of wealth and privilege.” … “And I have to say that every time one of your turns on him, it seriously pisses me off. Acheron asks nothing from any of you and that’s exactly what he receives.”

Men Way Want Mean Littles Suffering Turns Asks Wealth Dark Pay Blood Guilt Privilege Servant Hunters Dark Hunter

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.”

Children Hard Eye Today Waiting Sound Voice Differences Church Wonder Sea Holy Saint Privilege Wide Sensitive Prophet Orthodox Inward Veils Penetrate Child Of God Scribes

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.”

Seems Earth Beautiful Moving Next Space Mystery Honor Shapes Privilege Pale

Author:Carole Maso

“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”

Social Results Race Struggle Progress Constant Privilege Enjoyment Folly Artificial Severe Wisest Extremist Agitation Social Equality Constant Struggle

Author:Booker T. Washington

“We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege”

Moving Responsible Privilege Our Words

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”

Knows Has Beens Honor Privilege

Author:Cassandra Clare

“This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges”

Should May Privilege Privacy Invading

Author:Abbi Glines

“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.”

Source: Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.”

Humans Book Hard Jobs Suffering Messages Privilege Come Up Human Life Explanation

Book:Help: The First Essential Prayer

Source: Help: The First Essential Prayer

“Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.”

Love Said Shows Eye Love Is Lovers Regard Blind Privilege Worthy Extras

Author:James M. Barrie

“I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.”

Born Privilege Bitterness

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.”

Way Needs May Mean Special Office Privilege Dimensions Editors Modest Snob Cupboards

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”

Liberty Slavery Injustice Privilege Convinced Socialism Brutality

Book:Bakunin on anarchism

Source: Bakunin on anarchism

“The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.”

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”

“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”

Taken Privilege Away From You

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”

Soul Humanity Animal Share Privilege Cruelty Animal Rights I Hate You Animal Welfare Animal Cruelty Animal Love Human Animal Animal World Humans And Animals Appease Human Cruelty Animals And Society

Author:Pythagoras

“I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.”

Realizing Waste Privilege Bored Your Best Friend

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.”

Source: 1903-1905

“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”

Gratitude Privilege Thankfulness Entitlement Entitlement Mentality

Author:Brené Brown

“...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”

Glory Privilege

Author:Donna Tartt

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”

Ifs Heart Mean Eye Winning Fate Dying Glory Tasks Privilege Glad Midst Bows Wade

Author:Donna Tartt

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”

Rights Special Equal Privilege Equality 4th Of July Equal Rights

Author:Thomas Jefferson

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