Privilege Quotes

I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clea...

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...

Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine ...

As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against wom...

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged...

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they...

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think ...

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds...

Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owne...

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawki...

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't...

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denyi...

When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your h...

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example a...

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a ...

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that succes...

The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or t...

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recogn...

The better you look, the more you see.

People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. The...

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. ...

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look...

Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed ...

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of free...

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beaut...

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ...

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be r...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter ...

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within ...

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an a...

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are...

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving som...

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy s...

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privilege...

Some people envied Ronan’s money. Adam envied his time. To be as rich as Ronan was to be able to go ...

Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?

To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess t...

If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a...

...I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.Instead of having to earn it, you ...

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt th...

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou...

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""Tha...

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in...