Quotes About Privilege

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.

I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.

Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege.

To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.

I feel lucky that I get the privilege of serving in the Senate.

I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.