Quotes About Privilege

Ne t'en fais pas. Les scrupules sont bons pour les privilégiés. Pour nous qui sommes nés pauvres, notre seul salut est dans la ruse. Elle n'aimait pas entendre son frère parler ainsi et affirmer que leur enfance difficile excusait tout, ce qu'il faisait parfois.

Los que hemos nacido pobres tenemos que valernos de artimañas para conseguir lo que queremos. Los escrúpulos son cosa de los privilegiados.

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.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

Celebrities are the doormats to power.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.