"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."

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Source : "'Privilege is invisible to those who have it': engaging men in workplace equality". Interview with Fiona Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2016.

Michael Kimmel

#Privilege Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.”
“I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.”
“The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.”

Source : Aubrey Menen (2010). “Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged”, p.691, Penguin UK
“I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.”

Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland, operatic icon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. 2005.
“If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1870). “Peter Simple”, p.1
“It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.”
“Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.”
“[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.”

Source : "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 142, 1991.

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