Quotes About Privilege

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

The right is nothing more than what benefits the powerful.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

This fills me with anger, although I already know that it is in the normal order of things that the privileged oppress the unprivileged: the social structure of the camp is based on this human law.

Dat maakt me woedend, hoewel ik toch allang weet dat het in de orde der dingen ligt dat de bevoorrechten de niet-bevoorrechten onderdrukken: op die mensenwet berust de sociale structuur van het kamp.

Se si escludono istanti prodigiosi e singoli che il destino ci può donare, l'amare il proprio lavoro (che purtroppo è privilegio di pochi) costituisce la miglior approssimazione concreta alla felicità sulla terra: ma questa è una verità che non molti conoscono.

It is a privilege for us to look at circumstances and discern God's involvement in them. To recognize them as more than mere happenstance but rather God's own detailed design and plan. To see that He is allowing us to cooperate with Him in bringing life from death, growth from loss, testimony from tragedy.

Rich kids—they can never admit they're rich.

You look fabulous, he told her, and kissed her. Oh, crap, now I've got glitter, right? Leatherface does not do glitter. It's not manly. Claire and I both rolled our eyes, right on cue. Right. Small price to pay for the privilege of kissing such a beautiful girl, what was I thinking? Sorry.

Rich men don't look at people like us as human beings; we're pieces they move, levers they pull to get what they want.

he's been booted from three expensive private schools.

His wealth and connections open a door

not spawned by the lower classes but by the highest, by privileged young men and women made ignorant by the most expensive universities and schooled in violence by the culture of death that produced them.

To ache so deeply now for Nana gave the older woman's life profound meaning. It was a privilege to mourn such a loss because it meant you had loved and been loved.

Lamont, like the judge?" He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.

L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her due, and had never really had to worry about vanishing into a sea of unseen faces and unseen voices.