Quotes About Privilege

The tentativeness, the anxiety, sometimes approaching paralysis, the confusing, described in many of these essays by intelligent, educated, "privileged" women, are themselves evidence of the damage that an be done to the creative energy by the lack of continuity, historical validation, community. Most women, it seems, have gone through their travails in a kind of spiritual isolation, alone both in the present and in ignorance of their place in any female tradition.

Whiteness did not preserve any woman from ownership by men; it did bestow a skin-deep privilege that could delude her as to her fundamental object-status as woman, unenfranchised and dominated.

The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

Having a United States passport has been an incredible asset, and I hope that will continue to be the case.

It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

Golf didn't seem like it was for everybody. I didn't grow up with a whole lot of money, and my perception was that golf was for a snootier crowd.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

We can't all have gleaming grass, cut to the millimetre, perfectly manicured and watered when needed and looked after by 10 groundsmen. Not everyone can be at these clubs.

I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

Nevertheless, I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

How came the people to err? How happens it that, when seeking liberty and equality, they fell back into privilege and slavery? Always through copying the ancient régime.

My hatred of privilege and human authority was unbounded; perhaps at times I have been guilty, in my indignation, of confounding persons and things; at present I can only despise and complain; to cease to hate I only needed to know.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Pese a que en los estratos medios y altos hay los ingredientes culturales capaces de ver con toda lucidez las calamidades que produce el populismo, los sectores marginales de la sociedad, que en América Latina son mayoritarios, permanecen —gracias a las continuas prebendas que reciben— fieles a quienes dicen que ejercen el poder en su nombre y en contra de los privilegiados.

Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.

Bahwa orang yang punya itu banyak menimbulkan kesusahan pada yang tak punya. Dan mereka tak merasai ini.

my career in public life, I have had the rare privilege of being a participant in many of the defining moments of our country's democratic history. Our nation and its people have, and continue to, offer me an abundance of love, faith and affection in a measure that I find

Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

Rich people never know who their friends are.

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. #Satyamevjayate

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.