Quotes About Privilege

The very rich only admire themselves.

Apparently, what differentiates the mere rich from the filthy rich is a servant who treats you like dirt.

This is how people wanted to appear to the world and to later generations. It is how they wished to be remembered no matter how hard life might have become. They framed themselves in their best clothes and with their most valuable possessions and smiled. Hard times and collapsing marriages and heavy labor was nobody's business but their own.

But I'm telling you, something happens to beautiful people. They think that something extra is owed to them by life, by God, by all the people around them. They think their life has to be better, more dramatic, happier—in color, not black and white.

Tatiana yields herself to remind him that her submission-the source of all his strength-is his privilege and not his right.

Conditioned by the position of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor traveled, much less listened to Beethoven.

For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".

Although one cannot reduce everything to class, class remains an important factor in our understanding of multiple forms of oppression.

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

The rich are always afraid.

For there is such a pleasure in complaining, That a philosopher I've heard maintaining One ought to seek a sorrow and be vain of it, In order to be privileged to complain of it.

Seeing persistence as the key to success is also democratic. If hanging in there is what's required, then all the other characteristics and advantages one person might have over another—education, class, privilege—are taken off the table.

Fleur who had started from nothing, who had no rich parents

I am convinced, however, that our constant activity is fruitless without first making that humble act of kneeling to pray. I am convinced that prayer is not only our greatest privilege, but also our greatest source of power.

In a city where human beings struggle for the privilege of sleeping over subway grates

Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn't stand it.

Roman citizenship became universal when it was no longer a privilege but a burden

The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

White privilege is not an overt act of racism but the simple observation that people of white skin are historically and culturally dominant, and therefore seen as the standard or norm.

Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.

Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena.