Privileges Quotes
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone.. ..(but) it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses... (art must be like..) fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in it’s mother’s womb. (circa 1930)
hans arp— Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, p. 113
The unwelcomed, unwanted, unwarranted, and force-induced intrusion upon the campus of the University of Alabama today of the might of the central government offers frightful example of the oppression of the rights, privileges and sovereignty of this state by officers of the federal government.
george wallace— Speech in the door of the University of Alabama auditorium
Down with all colonial policy, down with the whole policy of intervention and capitalist struggle for the conquest of foreign lands and foreign populations, for new privileges, new markets, control of the Straits, etc.!
— Collected Works, Vol. 15, p. 229
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council’s insufficient representativeness.
alfred de zayas— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [17]
It isabouttime wehad anend tothe old Britain, whereall that matters is the privileges you were born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
(James) Gordon Brown— 2000 Speech, 25 May.
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.
Alison Lurie— 1981The Language of Clothes.
"The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ."
joseph alleine— pg.45. (An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (First Published 1671))
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.
miley cyrus— OK! Magazine (February 20, 2008)
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
buenaventura durruti— Variant: No government in the world fights fascism to the death. When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself.As quoted in Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain (1963) by Felix Morrow
I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I have faith to believe that ere long equal justice will be granted to the poor Indians and the Chinese.
thomas garrett— Letter published in The Liberator, when the 15th Amendment passed on March 30, 1870, as quoted in Station Master on the Underground Railroad : The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett (2005) by James A. McGowan, p. 194
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.
sarah grimké— Letter 15 (October 20, 1837)
"They have not enjoyed the educational and political privileges of the Han chinese, and they are in many respects primitive. But they know the meaning of fidelity, and if I say 'do this, although it means death,' they cheerfully obey."
ma fuxiang— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 271. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
vincent massey— Address at the Convocation of the University of British Columbia, May 18, 1954
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights—that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio broadcast (March 2, 1930)
Aristocracy has three successive ages, the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities ; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third.
françois-rené de chateaubriand— Variants: Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiorities, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.Original version: L'aristocratie a trois âges successifs : l'âge des supériorités, l'âge des privilèges, l'âge des vanités ; sortie du premier, elle dégènère dans le second et s'éteint dans le dernier.Book I, Ch. 1 : The Vallé-aux-loups
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?
florence earle coates— The New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry."
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. . . With an equality of civil rights, all men are equal before the law; all classes of the community being liable equally to taxation, military service, jury duties, and to the other impositions attendant on civilization, and no one being exempted from its control, except on general rules, which are dependent on the good of all, instead of the exemption's belonging to the immunities of individuals, estates, or families. An equality of civil rights may be briefly defined to be an absence of privileges.
james fenimore cooper— On Equality
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.
Denis Diderot— Article on Wealth
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox finally irregulationary.
jack vance— Chapter 9 (Emphyrio (1969))
Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.
jack vance— Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
— “The Meaning of a Liberal Education”, Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association (9 January 1909).
When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the violence used to keep them down, we cannot sincerely condemn them for violently rebelling against the structural violence that privileges us.
— Gelderloos, Peter. How Nonviolence Protects the State. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007. p. 37.[1]
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council’s insufficient representativeness.
— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [17]
I shall be as tender of the privileges of the University of Oxford as any man living, having the greatest veneration for that learned body.
— Willes, L.C.J., Welles v. Trahern (1740), Willes' Rep. 241.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall... abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
— Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, sec. 1 (1868).
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.
— Abraham Lincoln, written in 1836.
That most delicious of all privileges spending other people's money.
— John Randolph of Roanoke; reported in William Cabell Bruce, John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773–1833, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 204 (1922, reprinted 1970).
No man has a higher sense of the importance of the rights and privileges of counsel in discharge of their arduous and important duties, and I should regret if they had not that privilege, not for their sake only, but for the sake of the whole community.
— Cockhurn, C.J., Ex parte Pater (1864), 9 Cox, C. C. 553.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
dwight Eisenhower— First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
