#privilege

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#bourgeoisie #common #common people #common sense #exists

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#cat #clinton #clinton administration #example #finished

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#last #liberty #men #privilege #quits

Make health care a right, not a privilege. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#health #health care #make #privilege #right

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. ↗

— Ron Paul

#before #care #early #government #had

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

#allowed #either #good #home #lie

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don't do it so that other will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy. ↗

— Ann Romney

#because #churches #communities #different #greater

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#career #doing #felt #i #i love

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. ↗

— Jay London

#cause #had #i #least #much

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#dad #day #did #every #every night