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“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.”

Giving War Life Is Joy Values Fear Rights Pride Human Rights Privilege Worth Living Hideous Rights To Life

Author:Eve Curie

“We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.”

Heart Freedom Democracy Mouths Democratic Privilege Titles Adore Ridicule Heredity

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.”

God Jesus Prayer Sin Grief Bears Privilege

Author:Joseph M. Scriven

“I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.”

Order Women Rights Sacrifice Prepared Injustice Privilege Women Empowerment Preparing Equal Rights Possessing

Author:Inez Milholland

“Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.”

Thinking Giving Duty Charity Privilege Philanthropy Philanthropic Philanthropy Giving

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”

Life Should Firsts Made Ends Running Certain Asks Careers Offers Errors Privilege

Book:The life of Benjamin Franklin: to which are added Essays by the same Author : Mit einem Wörterbuch ; Zum Schul- u. Privatgebrauch

Source: The life of Benjamin Franklin: to which are added Essays by the same Author : Mit einem Wörterbuch ; Zum Schul- u. Privatgebrauch

“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.”

Inspirational Motivational Motivation Risk Privilege Inconvenience Unorthodox

Author:Jack Vance

“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation”

“There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.”

Men Politics Class Privilege

Book:Barbarians Within and Without

Source: Barbarians Within and Without

“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”

“Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.”

People Want Long Law Term Community Wealth Effort Class Poverty Society Policy Privilege Ideology Long Term Rooted Short Term Organisation Ending Poverty Class System

Author:Pete Townshend

“Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.”

Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day

“Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.”

Home Age Grows Realizing Known Growing Up Aging Fortune Privilege Grandparent Good Fortune

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?”

Way Looks Vision Seeing Sight Privilege Awe Fragrance Gale Gulls

Book:Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967

Source: Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967

“Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.”

Opportunity Special Equal Privilege Equality Equal Opportunity Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Anna Chennault

“The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.”

Made Done Today Suffering Powerful Authority Consequence Advantage Privilege Equality Rage Awakened Scapegoat

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.”

Kind Duty Privilege Abortion Insult Rhetoric Ordeals

Author:Germaine Greer

“Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.”

God Faces Spirituality Jesus Heaven Wonderful One Thing Possibility Eternity Privilege Here And Now Face To Face

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”

Men Problem Adversity Privilege Deeper Adversity In Life

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.”

Heaven Wealth Grace Security Privilege Greatest Gifts

Author:John Owen

“This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.”

Men Nations Enjoy Inspiring Race Principles Rights Color Ought Equal Regard Privilege Equality Every Man Backgrounds Civil Rights One Man Threatened

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.”

Wanted Sports Simple Race Mark Athlete Privilege

Author:Roger Bannister

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”

Strong Independent Privilege

Book:Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.”

Thinking Alive Hard Work Privilege

Author:Denton Cooley

“Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own”

Ifs World Needs Littles Remember Turns Pay Attitude Privilege Little Things Volunteer Need You Remember You Remembers You

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity”

Friendship Adversity Privilege Contemplating

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.”

Way Mother Desire Humanity Duty Mom Privilege Motherhood Triumph Immortality Fear Of Death Being A Mom Being A Mother Mothering

Author:Rebecca West

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...”

Ifs America Nations Rights Privilege Stranger Immigration Welcome Merit Enjoyment Oppressed Participation Decency Bosoms Persecuted Propriety Rights And Privileges

Author:George Washington

“The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.”

Feelings Home Kings Privilege Robbers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.”

World Home Care Found Responsibility Victory Privilege Burden Take Care Greatest Victory

Book:Storm Seed

Source: Storm Seed

“He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.”

Wanted Courses Names Citizens Privilege Immigration American Citizens Mayflower

Author:Anton Cermak

“But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Done Belief Prove Institutions Privilege Possession Worthy Delusion Hold Me

Book:Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel

Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel

“Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.”

Want Wells Purpose Dies Jesus Heaven Christ Responsibility Destiny Comfortable Jesus Christ Crosses Ultimate Privilege Deeper Christian Easter Easter Inspirational

Author:Rick Warren

“Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.”

War Freedom Money Cost Privilege Disagreement

Author:William J. Clinton

“We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.”

Knows Prayer Bounds Privilege Favors Repetition Knowing God Request

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.”

People Giving Firsts Soul Might Prayer Forget Cities Praying Glory Moved Meetings Privilege Storm Determined Celestial Glory Of God Intercession Prayer Meeting

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.”

Order Literature Language Struggle Deserve Privilege Discourse Arena

Author:Salman Rushdie

“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.”

Matter Whole Age Greatness Privilege Divided Posterity Rivalry Antagonist

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.”

Want Mean Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Privilege

Book:How the World Works

Source: How the World Works

“I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.”

Ifs Men Culture Black Justice White Mankind Equal Diversity Social Justice Privilege Possession Favors Separation Enjoyment Brotherhood White Man Castes Subservient

Author:Martin Delany

“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.”

Justice Class Diversity Conscious Essence Social Justice Privilege Privileged Deprived Deprivation Class System

Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs

“Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.”

Justice Responsibility Greater Rights Diversity Performances Social Justice Endure Privilege Protection Obligation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.”

Men Humans Belief Justice Rights Succeed Equal Diversity Social Justice Wine Privilege Bottles Equal Rights Human Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.”

Justice Diversity Social Justice Privilege

Book:Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

Source: Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”

Force Justice Enemy Diversity Social Justice Injustice Privilege Oppression Revolutionary True Religion

Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.”

Men Doe Suicide Privilege Sympathy Deities

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.”

Men Feels Body Social Existence Accepting Moral Environment Greater Society Subjects Materials Conscience Privilege Superiors Characteristics Superiority Yoke Great Society

Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.”

Happens Earth Spirit Given Prayer Plans Holy Lays Privilege Things Happen Accomplishment Holy Spirit Links Amazing Things God's Plan

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

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