Quotes About Privilege

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

The rich are different from us.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.