It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.
That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few. . . Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.
God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges
She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart