“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
Robert Harris (1957) novelist
Source: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.”
Debate with Uruguayan presidential candidate Mr. Pedro Bordaberry. Zoom a la noticia, Canal NTN24 (1 July 2014)
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Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Source: CEO Talk | Brunello Cucinelli, Founder and Chief Executive https://www.businessoffashion.com/amp/articles/ceo-talk/ceo-talk-brunello-cucinelli-founder-chief-executive-brunello-cucinelli Imran Amed, Business of Fashion, 1 July 2014
Charles A. Kupchan (1958) American university teacher
From the preface to the 2002 Knopf Edition
The End of the American Era (2002)
Context: As a matter of urgency, America needs to begin to prepare itself and the rest of the world for this uncertain future. To wait until American dominance is already gone would be to squander the enormous opportunity that comes with primacy. America must devise a grand strategy for the transition to a world of multiple power centers now, while it still has the luxury of doing so. This is the central challenge of The End of the American Era.
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
“It is a luxury to be understood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Max Fisher American journalist
Max Fisher, "This quote about Putin's machismo from Angela Merkel is just devastating" http://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313443/vladimir-putin-merkel (20 May 2015), Vox.
“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)