Quotes about Privilege
She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her.
— Edith Wharton
For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
— Edith Wharton
Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;
— Edith Wharton
You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. That is true enough in a sense, but your lungs are thinking about the air if you are not. And so it is with your rich people: they may not be thinking of money, but they're breathing it all the while; take them into another element and see how they squirm and gasp!
— Edith Wharton
Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.
— Edmund Burke
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.
— Alexander Hamilton
As I'm coming to realize more and more, God holds everything together in a mysterious quantum entanglement. With each breath we participate in the life-death-life pattern that always ends in resurrection. My hope is that each of us will choose to participate consciously, aware of this privilege and delight in being co-creators with God. Just pray that I can do whatever God wants me to do.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure.
— Rick Warren
Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.
— Hannah Hurnard
Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
— Billy Graham
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
— David O. McKay
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
— James A. Garfield