Quotes About Privilege

Noah had never had to wait in line to go into a grocery store,

Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness," he said. "It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

The rich aristocrats who spent their weekdays "shearing lambs" on Wall Street

White supremacy does not demand deep conviction. Ruthless self-interest, not sincere belief, is the signature feature of the doctrine. It finds its greatest expression, and most devastating effect, in the determination to state, live by, and act on the basis of ideas one knows are untrue when doing so will yield important benefits and privileges that one does not care to relinquish.

In popular language, middle-class children can be said to have been "born on third base but believe they hit a triple.

Le couple, assez fortuné, logeait dans un vieil hôtel chic, P. et moi dans une petite pension. Nous faisions peu l'amour, et rapidement, ne profitant pas de l'avantage que procurait mon état – le mal était fait – pas plus sans doute que le chômeur ne profite du temps et de la liberté que lui accorde l'absence de travail, ou le malade perdu de la permission de manger et boire de tout.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

It's a privilege to tell stories on film. It can be a great community to live a professional life. All of us that do this work should feel very grateful that we can.

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

I'm really lucky in the sense that I have the privilege of being able to pick and choose what I do and only pick projects I really love and feel I can bring something to and I can learn from.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

I promise to be the best missionary I can - a Mormon missionary for the LGBTQ community - and to hopefully use this privilege I've been given to give them a voice.

Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.

I'm proud, privileged, and overwhelmed by how many times I've played for England.

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.