Quotes About Privilege

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

If you're born on third base, you shouldn't think you hit a triple.

Tirar a la basura es un gesto de poder. El poder prescindir de bienes que otros necesitarían; el poder de saber que otros se ocuparían de desaparecerlo. El poder de poseer es placentero; nunca más que el poder de deshacerse: el poder de no necesitar la posesión. El poder verdadero es desdeñarlo.

O, dicho más brutal: ¿por qué no toleramos la desigualdad por géneros o razas pero sí por riqueza?)

Es cierto que nuestra desigualdad empieza cuando aquellos conquistadores se quedan con todo porque son distintos: que su título para mantener el poder era esa diferencia, esa desigualdad.

La desigualdad es esa manera tan absolutamente natural en que una empresaria colombiana, un profesor mexicano, un hacendado salvadoreño dicen María sírvenos el café.

In the aftermath of the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, the Texas Legislature and state courts passed laws giving clubs, organizations, and businesses the authority to refuse entry or services to any person, for any reason.

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

Rich girls are a pain in the arse in the sack:

Upon my word, Watson!" said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, "I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry." "You know," I answered with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.

It was his wont to warn them continually that the privilege of living with him in his community brought with it a grave responsibility, for God was Just and would judge them more severely than those who lived in worse ages when it was more difficult to resist evil. He said: "Verily ye are in an age when whoso omitteth one tenth of the law shall be doomed. But there will come an age when whoso fulfilleth one tenth of the law shall be saved.

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

to become a man (or at least an elite man) was to claim the right to speak.