Quotes About Privilege

Life is the privilege of mediocre people. Only mediocrities live at life's normal temperature; the others are consumed at temperatures at which life cannot endure, at which they can barely breathe, already one foot beyond life.

A privilege to live in conflict with one's times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others. This state of acute dissimilarity, however indigent or sterile it appears, nonetheless possesses a philosophical status which one would be at a loss to seek in cogitations attuned to events.

A r?mâne cu mintea întreag? e un privilegiu ce ne poate fi retras.

Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?

Only God has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us.

Talvolta erano gli stessi esponenti dell'aristocrazia che sobillavano le folle contro l'assolutismo monarchico per difendere o recuperare i loro privilegi, ostentati come garanzia di libertà contro il dispotismo del re. L'aristocrazia si serviva della protesta dei poveri per rinsaldare il proprio predominio sulle classi inferiori. Contadini

Either this organisation of injustice with its entire machine of oppressive laws and privileged institutions, must disappear, or else the proletariat is condemned to eternal slavery. This is the quintessence of the Socialist idea, whose germs can be found in the instinct of every serious thinking worker.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately.

It is in the nature of those who have never been told "no" to think that the universe is there for their own benefit.

E' strana la notte: per quelli che si addormentano subito dura solo un attimo, mentre per chi la passa completamente in bianco, diventa così lunga che è come vivere una vita supplementare e sembra quasi un privilegio…

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

The last French Bourbon to reign, Charles X, brother of the guillotined Louis XVI and of his brief successor, Louis XVIII, displayed a recurring type of folly best described as the Humpty-Dumpty type: that is to say, the effort to reinstate a fallen and shattered structure, turning back history. In the process, called reaction or counter-revolution, the reactionary right is bent on restoring the privileges and property of the old regime and somehow retrieving a strength it did not have before.

Bourgeois might be forbidden to own a carriage or wear ermine, and peasants to wear any color but black or brown. Florence allowed doctors and magistrates to share the nobles' privilege of ermine, but ruled out for merchants' wives multicolored, striped, and checked gowns,

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Without moving he had glanced down at her head, at the steady rise and fall of her breath. She had a tiny mole on the lobe of her left ear. Did she know it was there? It was a lover's privilege to know another's body almost better than she herself did.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.

I think I'm just realizing what a huge luxury it is to be able to do whatever we want on television.