Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.
I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.
The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.
The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that any man can be substituted for any other so that his differences make no difference. The two are not at all the same. The democratic rule that all men are equal means that men's being different cannot be made a basis for special privilege or for the invidious advantage of one man over another; equality, under the democratic rule, is the freedom and opportunity of each individual to be fully and completely his different self. Democracy means the right to be different.
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway. "Oh, I see all these different people! All these different walks of life on the subway. " Well, they're not coming to your dinner party. Certainly, in small-town Nebraska, everyone indeed did mix together.
If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.
Pressure is a privilege. . . it's what you do with it that matters.
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be,. . . not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow tempo of craftwork, of taking the time you need to do something well, is profoundly stabilizing to individuals.
I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.