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The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
Slippery use of the word "privilege" is part of a vogue of calling achievements "privileges" - a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.
Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Only powerful people have liberty.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
grandeur that few people ever
We would all like you to know what a ... privilege it has been to make you look your best. Then
Leisure with dignity.
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life ...
I'm a very wealthy man.
That dowdy little prig is that good in bed.
Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.
Honourable is right.
For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
I'm a private kind of person.
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
It's fucking hard to be classy
See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.
I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.
Rich with the spoils of nature.
Dignity, always Dignity!
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.
My queendom for a coffee!
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
I'm filthy rich!
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.
Don't give away your power.
Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
To catch all feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.
Excellent is prasie worthy.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
[L]earn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny
Act like a VIP and become a VIP
declared Mr Marrable magniloquently;
I'm the most private person.
ultra-professional, a fair but firm
You are the grand estate and administrator of - now.
Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.
The institution of private property ... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.
I love you, Prin,' I say.
'Just shut up.
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy
Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
Mr Nobley: Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return.
Humble Only: The Pawn
the ears of the prince. His guardianship over
to authorize that personally.
The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
No snake is as venomous as wounded privilege.
Who asks a king for a penny?
The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.
On the Palace of Westminster: There is a sense of entitlement that pervades this place like a colourless and odourless gas, creeping along the corridors and under every door. P.10
Deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated.
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.
She paused a moment.
"Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you say 'no,' I shan't. But, please, Pepino--"
Pepino, however, had been instructed to say 'yes,' and accordingly did so.
Peter Principle
a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.
Toilet paper is a right, not a privilege,
The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.
If you wish to make Pythocles honourable, do not add to his honours, but subtract from his desires;
So many people, even now, admire privation. They think it sharpens you, the way beauty does, into something that might hurt them. They calculate their own strengths against it, unconsciously, preparing to pity you or fight. Like
Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
Use id not a right, Queen Meira --it is a privilege.
Protecting you is my privilege. I will protect you and anything that you value as if it were mine.
My ability is my most prized possession, even though it separates me from everyone else. But for power, for my own power, it is a price I am willing to pay.
When the wind is at your back, you don't even notice it
But when it is blowing in your face, you become very aware of it's presence.
That's how it is with privilege:
When you have it, you don't even notice it
When you don't have it - you know.
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
Give what you possess.
If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ...
For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How
Disproportionate.
Earn the right to be proud and confident.
Private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
Why, thank you for your permission, Tremaine." Tremaine made a derisive noise, unimpressed. "Somebody's got to give you permission, if you won't give it to yourself.
There is a proud modesty in merit.
You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
secrecy is a hotbed of vanity
I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy
Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
Though I be poor, I'm honest.
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.
Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
With great power comes great responsibilty.
I'm rich biotchh!
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury
Benevolence is often very peremptory.
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.
Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!
I wish to speak with Mr. Pembrooke, if
Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.
Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.