Quotes About Privilege

How many ways did rich people have of not saying the word rich?

We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.

Why was my grandfather, a Texas billionaire with a whole host of private chefs on call, eating at a hole-in-the-wall diner in a small Connecticut town that no one's ever heard of?

And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.

Heiress, you wound me.

I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange--not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable and painting the house-front with Hindley's blood.

Lest Love should value less What loss would value more, Had it the stricken privilege --- It cherishes before.

To wander now is my abode; To rest,—to rest would be A privilege of hurricane To memory and me.

And I, could I stand by And see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

A heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another's eyes.

A un cuore in pezzi Nessuno s'avvicini Senza l'alto privilegio Di avere sofferto altrettanto.

Es un raro placer que nos ahorma hallar un viejo libro con la ropa que usaba en aquel tiempo, creo que un privilegio. Cogerle de la mano venerable, calentarla en la nuestra y dar un paso o dos hacia el pasado, al tiempo en que era joven.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think

It is a unique and terrible privilege to witness the entire arc of a life, to see it through from its inception to its end. But it is also an opportunity to love without a net, without the future, without the past, but right now.

Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

Jeff: Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

Spending time in a market-driven social setting—even a relatively inexpensive fast-food restaurant or pastry shop—requires paying for the privilege.

I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.

the book is not an exhaustive account of all aspects of female experience, but a concentrated examination of the concerns that privileged women were prepared to commit to paper (two topics that were virtually never canvassed, for instance, were spirituality and sex).

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

In a related context, Nigerian American novelist Teju Cole once tweeted, "The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

It's not privilege when it makes you feel awful, when it cripples your ability to do good things in the world.