Quotes About Privilege

The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us.

Co-writing the 'True Blood' comic is a dream come true both as a performer on the show and as longtime comic fan. It's a real privilege to build on the rapidly growing 'True Blood' mythology.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Look at the exposure I am getting, and look at what I am learning from people at literally an arm's length. I am truly privileged to have that experience and even sitting and working with people who I have grown up with. You learn a lot from their experiences.

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

I consider it an honor and a privilege to play for the Indianapolis Colts, and I would never want to jeopardize it by doing something stupid.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

I'm a Congressman, and can do whatever I want