Quotes About Privilege

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

It's a privilege to be in this position, to have people want to talk to me, to have people want to hear my story and hear what's going on, because it can easily be on the flip side, and no one wants to talk to me, no one respects me one-on-one, no one in the stands wearing my jersey. It's a blessing.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.