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“And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.”

Long Ends Government Loss Imagine Subjects Produce Privilege Profit Valuable Imagine That Swindling

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?”

Mean Doe Has Beens Subjects Serious Concepts Notion Privilege Pursuit Free Will Chocolate Devoted

Author:Sandra Boynton

“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.”

People Ifs Giving Country Life Is Certain White Virtue Doors Subjects Giving Up Racism Pressure Privilege Myth Elusive White Privilege Fugitive Meritocracy Free Country

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.”

Facts Reality Fiction Feminism Special Subjects Tired Privilege Queens Pretense

Author:Lillie Devereux Blake

“In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.”

“... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.”

Men Long Character Sex Virtue Rights Subjects Demand Labor Dresses Privilege Appearance Manners Motive Endeavor Ridicule Rights And Privileges Personal Appearance

Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

Men Life Subjects Creatures Philosophical Privilege Absurdity Living Creatures

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.”

People Long Doe Able Energy Ability Achieve Subjects Position Becoming Privilege Objectives Pursue Release Ambitious Free Society Suppressing

Author:Milton Friedman