Privilege Quotes

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

I am privileged to have played basketball.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

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

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.