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“All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.”

Men America Wealth Honest Privilege Wealthy Honest Man

Book:Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

Source: Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

“Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.”

People Made Jesus Christ Progress Eternal Jesus Christ Fingers Privilege Gods Will Faithful Revelations Manifest Exaltation Eternal Happiness

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.”

People Knows Men Wells May Children Order Teach Deserve Let Me Privilege Scripture Kingdoms Sermons Celestial Correcting Oracles Children Of Men

Author:Brigham Young

“In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.”

Years Speak Church Kings Members Six Twenties Congress Privilege Thrones Elders Passing Away Joseph Smith

Author:Brigham Young

“The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.”

Heaven Born Class Meetings Privilege Likes Hiding Working Class Englishmen Hiding Place

Author:Matthew Arnold

“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”

Men Government Form Business Rights Duty Harmony Institutions Property Privilege Limitation Corporate Corporations Contracts Truthful Representation Property Rights

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.”

Men Made Said Country Lines Land Mines Claims Privilege Affection Divides Accord Understand Me

Author:Chief Joseph

“One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.”

Parent Women Privilege Adulthood

Author:Amy Dickinson

“It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.”

People Thinking World Important Able Speak Language Grew Grew Up Absolutes Important Things Privilege

Author:Lucy Liu

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“Privilege is invisible to those who have it.”

Privilege Invisible

Author:Michael Kimmel

“The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!”

Artist Struggle Privilege Buried Gorgeous

Author:Hiroko Sakai

“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Wells May Humanity Existence Moral Cost Survival Consequence Privilege Preserves Serving Warning Holocaust Frightening License

Book:Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Source: Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

“As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.”

Mind Whole Common Education Privilege Population Invisible Cosmic Promoting Introspective

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.”

Country Nations Results Special Citizens Ordinary Absolutes Trade Congress Privilege Jew Agreement Soviet Spontaneous Anti Semitism Blocked Outbreaks Trade Agreements Be Spontaneous

Author:Alan Brien

“It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.”

Men Laughing Fool Intelligent Privilege Intelligent Man

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.”

Humans Wealth Standing Privilege Canada Peers Canada Day Canada Funny Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.”

Giving Passion Individual Privilege Reasonable Swings Spares Unlimited Tigers Immunity Prerogative Hart

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.”

Share Return Thousand Privilege Grants Electric Grandparent Motor Descendants Effortless General Motors General Electric

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.”

Firsts Age Dies Three Thirds Privilege Vanity Superiority Aristocracy Degenerates

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.”

Ifs Hard Certain Social Class Rights Pride Property Privilege Debt Convinced Concrete Property Rights Social Class Specialty

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.”

Desire Passion Taste Privilege All Time Dominant Contradictory

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.”

Men Stills Knowing Alive Gratitude Privilege Fortunate Peers Coast

Author:Bill Reid

“Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.”

Winning Asking Privilege

Author:Liza Mundy

“He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry”

Ifs Wanted Talent Fields Privilege Fantastic If I Could Footballer

Author:Steve Bruce

“You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.”

Needs Differences Wealth Privilege Making A Difference

Author:Joni Ernst

“To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.”

Love Life Humans Soul God Christian Names Highest Privilege Following Christian Inspirational Lifts Human Life Meaning Of Life Heavenly Invites Preaching Inviting

Author:W. A. Criswell

“For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.”

Needs Mean School Joy Students Sells Privilege Obligation

Book:Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement

Source: Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement

“For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.”

Thinking Two Might Differences Levels Cases Greatness Genius Privilege Height Rising Mediocrity

Book:Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose

Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose

“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.”

Mean Government Pay Arms Bears Taxes Female Privilege Burden Admitting Suffrage

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.”

People I Can Born Emotion Millions Sky Land Gratitude Passionate Privilege Devotion Allowing Fellowship County Adequacy

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.”

Men Enjoy Privilege Magnanimity

Author:Germaine Greer

“If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.”

Ifs Men Giving Interest Vision Privilege Rebel Patriot Hospitality Invaders

Author:Dorothy Day

“Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.”

Three Stage Abuse Institutions Privilege Utility

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.”

Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

“The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.”

Social Expression Personality Depends Privilege Prestige

Book:Letter to a Priest

Source: Letter to a Priest

“And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?”

Ifs Children Privilege Having Children

Author:Bob Geldof

“In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.”

People Government Would Be Principles Democracy Share Influence Equal Fairs Roots Foundation Privilege Contrary Inequality Representation Sections

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.”

Government Form Enjoy Citizens Election Privilege Communism Voting Forms Of Government Election Time

Author:Evan Esar

“A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.”

Individual Conscience Privilege Corporations

Author:Evan Esar

“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Wealth Numbers Poverty Rich Greater Growing Citizens Fortune Financial Privilege Extremes Granted Divided Exclusive Financial System Extreme Poverty

Author:Denis Diderot

“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

People Two Form Mother Three Language Privilege Tongue Helpless Foreign Language Mother Tongue

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.”

Giving Self Advice Privilege Foolish Pretense Giving Advice

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.”

Men Independence Privilege Lofty

Book:Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.

Source: Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.

“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”

Ill Privilege Royal

Author:Antisthenes

“It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.”

Character Actors Chance Roles Stage Huge Understood Built Privilege

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.”

Way Humans Different Jobs Joy Actors Human Nature Curiosity Privilege Different Ways Exploring

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.”

Heart Self Friendship Solitude Fruit Privilege Caring

Author:Max Elliott Slade

“For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.”

Privilege All Time

Book:Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.”

People Ifs Should Easy Cases Impossible Appreciate Privilege Mediums Addresses Accurate Multitudes Discourse Scientific Knowledge

Book:Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek