Quotes About Privilege

See Fineman (2004), 123: "We should transfer the social and economic subsidies and privilege that marriage now receives to a new family core connection—that of the caretaker-dependent.

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Princes have far more toys than they need.

He tries to read a novel, something about privileged people having trouble getting along with each other in exotic locations. He throws it against the wall. Something has broken in him. His appetite for human self-regard is dead.

The wrong people have all the rights.

Her own life had been a haze of privilege, narcissism, and impossibly extended adolescence, filled with mean, sardonic hipness and self-protection. Now she has been called.

Without elders, much of our history has been formed by juniors reacting, overreacting, and protecting their own temporary privilege, with no deep-time vision like the Iroquois Nation, which considered, "What would be good for the next seven generations?" Compare that to the present "Tea Party" movement in America.

Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong.

I was raised to be a rich kid, only without the complication of money.

Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure.

Ah, but the rich are different,' the footman said, 'they take a lot more looking after.

The Gender Defender is someone who actively, or by knowing inaction, defends the status quo of the existing gender system, and thus perpetuates the violence of male privilege and all its social extensions. The gender defender, or gender terrorist, is someone for whom gender forms a cornerstone of their view of the world. Shake gender up for one of these folks, and you're in trouble.

Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male in most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women.

Male privilege is, in a word, violence.

It's a great privilege, after all, to have been given a part to play, however small, on the world's stage.

We won the right to be free citizens. And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out. That's what dignity's really about, if you'll excuse me, sir.

For the likes of yourself, it's always been easy to exert your influence. You can count the most powerful in the land as your friends. But the likes of us here, sir, we can go year in year out and never even lay eyes on a real gentleman

I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged." She

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

hombres de poder jamás muestran gratitud. Démosles lo que les demos, lo aceptan como un derecho.

Nosotros pertenecemos a la nobleza —dijo su padre—. No tenemos por qué atender a las necesidades de unos simples mercaderes.

Pero entonces siempre hay una excusa para que la élite tenga sus privilegios especiales.