Quotes About Privilege

The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the public interest are served, is always present in the public-spirited and the self-respecting. They look upon resigning, not as a cowardice and quitting and a personal disaster, but as the ultimate guarantee of their useful influence and of their personal dignity. - Walter Lippmann

Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of the privilege of a particular form of participation, coming to know the way we hold the conversation of life and perhaps, above all, the miracle that there is a particular something rather than an abstracted nothing and we are a very particular part of that particular something.

The French philosopher Camus used to tell himself quietly to live to the point of tears, not as a call for maudlin sentimentality, but as an invitation to the deep privilege of belonging and the way belonging affects us, shapes us and breaks our heart at a fundamental level.

What is it with rich people thinking they can starve the poor into good behavior?

The problem, it is claimed, with grand narratives is that they privilege one perspective over another; the alternative is a relativism which holds that all perspectives are equally valid.

Art is wasted on those who can afford it

Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?

Verá, doctor, los aristócratas somos como los funámbulos. No nos damos cuenta de lo que hay debajo de nosotros.-Julia Grey

You have health and beauty and wit so sharp a man might cut himself and think the bleeding a privilege.

Her idea of roughing it is not taking the second footman

it was the smile that said, 'I know best. I know better than you.' The smile that said, 'I'm safe here and you're not.' The smile that said, 'I have a dick, so I win.

Believe me when I tell you, a royal would never soil their hands when there are minions who will gladly do the deed for them. They don't handle money, they don't knock on doors—for the love of Christ, Veronica, they scarcely even wipe their own—

The World of Today, Few People have Everything while Many People have Nothing.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

La lección que Anita saca de la discusión con su marido es bien clara: la justicia es un lujo al alcance de muy pocos.

We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

As psychologist Herb Goldberg reminds us in his book The Hazards of Being Male, 'The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine "privilege" and power.... He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself--emotionally, psychologically, and physically.

Diversity allows whites to remove themselves while requiring the Other to continue performing for them.

What does it mean to be in-between? It means one can afford to sit on the fence, decide not to take a stand, to always reserve the privilege - while the battle rages all around - to disengage.