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Quotes About Privilege

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?
~ John Piper
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
~ E. M. Delafield
It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
~ Nicky Gumbel
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
~ Eliza Parsons
To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.
~ Fred Brooks
It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to thank dogs. Dogs have given me everything.
~ Ricky Gervais
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon
It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.
~ Ellen G. White
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
~ Dave Hickey
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
~ Brennan Manning
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.
~ Philip Gulley
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
~ Thomas P. O'Neill
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
~ Ann Patchett
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
~ Alice Waters
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
~ George Bernard Shaw
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty
~ Jasmine Guy
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.
~ Jesse Jackson
Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.
~ Mason Cooley