Quotes About Privilege

I believe that every family - it doesn't make a difference who you are or where you come from - deserves to have quality healthcare. It is a universal right. It's not the exclusive privilege of the elite and the wealthy.

For wealthy or privileged students, applying to Ivy League schools or elite schools is sort of expected of them. If you go to a prep school, for example, that's just what your guidance counsellor tells you.

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children's chances at admission to college.

The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and my wedding was not on the cover of a magazine.

Boys can essentially wee anywhere, and my very scientific theory is that this privilege leads to some of the mind-blowing confidence they show in later life - for example, the number of guys I've known who've decided to 'give comedy a go' after finding out that I'm a comedian.

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Having the name 'Bloomberg' doesn't help me in any way... and it really is a disadvantage and takes away from the image I'm trying to portray.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.