Quotes About Privilege

the downtrodden may yearn to be heard, but if a voice from a more privileged sphere speaks on their behalf, they'll roll their eyes and jeer at the voice's accent.

behaving as if his actions didn't need defending. Typical rich kid, typical pampered little tycoon. None of their actions ever needed defending, did they?

Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human.

Hay que admitir, en suma, que este poder se ejerce más que se posee, que no es el "privilegio" adquirido o conservado de la clase dominante sino el efecto de conjunto de sus posiciones estratégicas, efecto que manifiesta, y a veces acompaña, la posición de aquellos que son dominados.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

We mustn't be envious, comrades. There's twenty-two dachas4 in all, and only seven more being built, and there's three thousand of us in Massolit.' 'Three thousand one hundred and eleven,' someone put in from the corner. 'So you see,' the Bos'n went on, 'what can be done? Naturally, it's the most talented of us that got the dachas . . .

That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status.

If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son of God can undergo judgement of shit, then human existence loses its dimensions and becomes unbearable light.

Rejection and privilege, happiness and woe—no one felt more concretely than Yakov how interchangeable opposites are, how short the step from one pole of human existence to the other.

The old scholar was watching the noisy young people around him and it suddenly occurred to him that he was the only one in the whole audience who had the privilege of freedom, for he was old. Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future. He is alone with approaching death and death has no ears and does not need to be pleased. In the face of death a man can do and say what pleases his own self.

Aujourd'hui l'âme de la foule, qui s'identifiait peut-être jadis aux misérables persécutés, s'identifie à la misère des persécuteurs. Parce que la chasse à l'homme est en notre siècle la chasse aux privilégiés : à ceux qui lisent des livres ou qui ont un chien.

L'anima della folla, che forse un tempo si identificava con i miseri perseguitati, si identifica oggi, con la miseria dei persecutori. Perché nel nostro secolo la caccia all'uomo è caccia ai privilegiati. A quelli che leggono libri o che hanno un cane.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment! I

He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.

On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic underclass-- and when he softly pleads for change, for anything, I noticed the Barnes & Noble book bag that sits next to him on the steps of the church he's begging on and I can't help but smirk, out loud, Oh right, like YOU read...

just wasn't that interested in politics. Or else, as many would say, it was easier because I was a white privileged male. Or possibly because I'm simply a grown man, no longer a child, and understood that the world didn't always behave precisely as we wanted it to and also that people weren't all the same. I was far more interested in what people were really like, not who they voted for.

I poked fun at rich friends growling about the unfairness of the Electoral College over a dinner at Spago that cost thousands of dollars, and took Meryl Streep to task for her outraged anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes the same week she'd put her Greenwich Village townhouse on the market for thirty million dollars.

If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be pollution in the rivers and toxins in the air. If enough individuals are full of supremacy and privilege in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases. But

We saw how Christian Zionism perpetuates a simple but terribly dangerous theological idea, an idea that Christian missiologist Lesslie Newbigin called "the greatest heresy in the history of monotheism," the idea that God chooses some people for exclusive privilege, leaving everyone else in a disfavored (or we might say "dis-graced") status.14 They are the other. They don't belong here. They are in the way. Their rights don't count.