Quotes About Privilege

If you are disciplined and privilege the future over the present you can change the structure of reality in your favour.

If you're reading this book, there's a strong probability that you're a privileged person. You can read. You have time to read. You're perched high in the clouds. It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order.

When the aristocracy catches a cold, the working class dies pneumonia.

Cuando la aristocracia se resfría, como suele decirse, las clases trabajadoras mueren de neumonía.

If you're reading this book, there's a strong probability that you're a privileged person. You can read. You have time to read. You're perched high in the clouds.

have seen university students, particularly those in the humanities, suffer genuine declines in their mental health from being philosophically berated by such defenders of the planet for their existence as members of the human species. It's worse, I think, for young men. As privileged beneficiaries of the patriarchy, their accomplishments are considered unearned.

To those who have everything more will be given. From those who have nothing everything will be taken.

Leer siempre la había relajado. Era un privilegio. Sumergirse en una buena novela equivalía a penetrar en otro mundo, olvidar, sentir, experimentar emociones únicas.

Pelópidas's father, a collateral descendant, inherited only the name and the aristocratic habit of not working.

After the aristocracy of birth had come the aristocracy of money.

A society without an aristocracy, without an elite minority, is not a society.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.

Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political," Song said.

shouldn't even be going inside—it's for medicine cats and Clan leaders only

I'm proud of you, Leopardfur," he mewed. "I always have been. I'm privileged in a way most medicine cats aren't: I am a father, and I've lived a full life. I loved being a warrior.

Will there be a naming ceremony?" Mousefur called from the crowd. Fireheart looked eagerly up at the Highrock. Would his sister's kit be granted this privilege, as he had been when the Clan had formally accepted him? Bluestar looked down at Mousefur, her eyes cold. "No," she answered.

You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

The rich were dull and they drank too much…. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain't got nothing. That's how it looks to me. Don't seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain't got no time to fool with us poor folks.

A Solidão não é forçosamente Negativa, pelo contrário, até me parece um Privilégio. Talvez a minha Solidão seja Excessiva, mas eu Detestei sempre as coisas Mundanas. Estar com as Pessoas apenas para gastar as Horas é-me Insuportável…

If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.

Speaking of privilege, David said when he gave me her biography, it is a privilege to spend your life writing. Not a luxury, he clarified, but a privilege.