Quotes About Privilege

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.