#privilege

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence. ↗

— John J. Sirica

#because #candor #court #courts #criminal

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. ↗

— John Sladek

#alive #any #being #century #except

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. ↗

— Amy Tan

#extreme #gift #giving #privilege #someone

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

#friendship #greatness #knows #men #private

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#century #countryside #dumped #engage #european

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#brethren #came #come #desire #did

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#away #between #broad #constitution #country

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 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