Privilege Quotes

I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

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.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Failure is a privilege.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.