Quotes About Privilege

it is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the   Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

you had to be reasonably wealthy and privileged to choose not to own stuff. He

He put his hand on the book. To those who have, more will be given, he said. From those who have not will be taken even the little that they have

One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

God is so cruel," she murmured reflectively, as though answering him. "Yes," he admitted, from the vantage point of going blind. "Though maybe people are kinder if He made them that way." "You've run with a different crowd. Rich people are nicer to rich people." "Sure. Yes. That's why I've washed up here. Rich people couldn't have been nicer to me.

For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities, they epitomise our oligarchic reality.

The advantages of being raised on the right side of the tracks are too implicit to be enumerated. It is the few who have escaped who grasp the full impotence of those they have left behind. After

The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.

The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy.

Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.

Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.