“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.” CountryNationsResultsSpecialCitizensOrdinaryAbsolutesTradeCongressPrivilegeJewAgreementSovietSpontaneousAnti SemitismBlockedOutbreaksTrade AgreementsBe Spontaneous Author:Alan Brien
“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.” MenHeartHelpingDreamGovernmentLawOrderSocialResultsMankindOrganizationSlaveryPrivilegeCreatorExcuseRevengeOppressionAppealsFancyDelusionAnarchyDefendersSocial OrderWildest Dreams Author:Voltairine de Cleyre
“the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.” ResultsCreaturesDiseasePrivilegeInequalityVicious Book:Of Men and Women Source: Of Men and Women
“The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.” MindCountryStatesValuesGoalTermResultsCommonDevelopmentPrivilegeConsumersReasonableState Of MindCapitalistSocialistConsumerismDesirablePackagesAntidoteOverconsumptionUnderdevelopment Author:Ivan Illich
“I will miss the contact with the people - the privilege of trying to communicate to people every day that the court system is going to work for them the way it's supposed to work. That doesn't guarantee they're going to get the result they want, but the court is going to listen and follow the law and try to make a fair decision. That is an awesome privilege and responsibility I will miss.” PeopleWayWantTryingLawDecisionResultsResponsibilityMissingFairsCourtPrivilegeCommunicateContactGuaranteesGoing To WorkCourt SystemPrivilege And Responsibility Author:Steven Pacey