#privilege

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#happenstance #luck #need #privilege #men

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#moral-absolutism #morality #police #privilege #responsibility

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#career #fonda #great #guess #henry

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! ↗

— May Sarton

#love #murder #privilege #those #who

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#destroy #greatest #greatest privilege #her #house

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. ↗

— Charles Eames

#address #class #does #enlightened #greatest

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. ↗

— William Beveridge

#find #often #pessimist #privilege #scratch

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#after #applied #arms #bearing #boy

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#broad #claim #confidentiality #confrontation #conversations