Definition of Privilege

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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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins

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

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

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

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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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