Quotes About Privilege

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

La nobleza es cara, improductiva y parasitaria, y absorbe demasiada energía de la sociedad para satisfacer sus frívolos antojos.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Ceux qui ont le privilège de savoir ont le devoir d'agir.

Cei care au privilegiul de a ?ti, au datoria de a ac?iona

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.

Tal como os livros de Petrarca, os meus sabem infinitamente mais do que eu e agradeço-lhes por sequer tolerarem a minha presença. Por vezes, sinto que abuso desse privilégio.

_They_ believe that the Ballot will rob them of their Power and Privileges, whereas _I_ am sure that, by the exercise of even such little Prudence and Cunning as parsimonious Nature has endowed them with, they can with ease maintain themselves in their present pre-eminence. This being so, let the Rabble amuse itself by voting. An Election is no more than a gratuitous Punch and Judy Show, offered by the Rulers in order to distract the attention of the Ruled.

Fortunate boys! No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy_to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Todos nosotros —prosiguió el Interventor, meditabundo— vivimos en el interior de un frasco. Mas para los Alfas, los frascos, relativamente hablando, son enormes. Nosotros sufriríamos horriblemente si fuésemos confinados en un espacio más estrecho. No se puede verter sucedáneo de champaña de las clases altas en los frascos de las castas bajas.