Quotation Explorer - 'Privileges'

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. - H.L. Mencken
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. - Sir Winston Churchill
I'm not a feminist. Many of those who carry its flag are as selfish as male chauvinists. They want privileges but not responsibilities. Bullies hiding under a fine cause. - Prince-Alex Iwu
Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. - Jack Vance
You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had. - DaShanne Stokes
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination. - Betty Friedan
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. - Lucille Ball
Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted. - Sara Sheridan
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. - Austin O'Malley
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. - Samuel Johnson
There is no equality while privileges enjoyed by the many are denied to the few. - Robert Cubitt
People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged. - DaShanne Stokes
What you love is a clue to your calling and talent.As you assume the responsibilities of the present, take time to enjoy the privileges available to you now. Today's action will speak better of tomorrow and more. - Prince Akwarandu
Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose. - Chris Brady
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking... - Leo Tolstoy
If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. - Helen Keller
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