Quotes About Privilege

Pass on the priveleged, piss on the rest.

I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money

The root cause, simply put, is globalization, and the resulting monopolization of wealth by a global elite.

A lesson to people who think that, just because they're a little smarter and luckier than ordinary people, they can do as they please.' Lisa

This whole fucking country's got it great and doesn't even know it. Why? Because the price for having it so great gets paid somewhere else, by somebody else, where you don't have to see it. Out of sight, out of mind. That's the fucking key to the whole shit system. Stay blind, stay deaf.

The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

The records of a relatively small bank, C. Hoare's & Co. in London, which have survived intact from the period 1702–1724, illustrate this point. Though the bank did lend money to aristocrats and lords, fully two-thirds of the biggest borrowers from Hoare's over this period were not from the privileged social classes.

Normal people don't know how lucky—how blessed—they are.

Maybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so much they sent him someone else's breakfast, maybe then he was the sort of man who could get an audience with the King.

Montgomery said, "I thought there were, like, laws against that kind of stuff?" "But if you have enough money, the laws don't apply to you

As opposed to what? A country run by old white billionaires and their paid lackeys in Washington?

People with power and means would always take advantage of those without them.

All doors opened for the leader of the free world and he strode into the White House like he owned it. Which unofficially he did. Though financed by the American taxpayers, it was really his house, his chopper, his jumbo jet. No one got to come for a visit or go for a ride if he didn't say it was okay.

Franklin Roosevelt was pretty good." "He was already rich. Nobody could touch him.

Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.

Of course none compare to the exponential growth unleashed by late-20th Century America's synergy of government, enterprise and unleashed individual competitiveness. One result was the first society transforming itself from the feudal pyramid of privilege to a diamond shape[227] whose vast and healthy and well-educated middle class proved to be the generator of nearly all our great accomplishments.

Warren Buffett has famously attributed much of his success to "winning the ovarian lottery"—that is, being born as a white male to middle-class parents in an America on the cusp of the postwar boom.

Law school was, for the most part, full of overindulged kids looking to become lawyers either to please daddy or to bring home the big paycheck.