Privilege
A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
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Privilege Quotations
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
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
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Privilege Translations
privilege in Afrikaans is voorreg
privilege in Dutch is preferentie, privilege, prae
privilege in German is Privileg, Vorrecht, Sonderrecht
privilege in Latin is beneficium
privilege in Spanish is privilegio
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