Quotes About Privilege

I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.

I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

Pudding is not a human right.

I legally can punch someone in the face and not get arrested for it, which most human beings can't do.

I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the top of any combat sport because they don't have the drive. All the great boxers come from the ghetto. They all had nothing. They have the desire, the hunger but the rich kid is not going to get punched in the face. Why would they?

While racists see themselves as proudly punching down, anti-Semites perceive themselves as punching up.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.

I can't deny that there's a great privilege in having parents who are established in the field that I'm pursuing. I try to appreciate the fact that they're so great at it. They've been such great role models, not only talent-wise but also in how they lead their lives and the reasons why they've pursued this.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

My father was MD of Unilever, so we followed him around the world.

I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

As professional footballers, we are in a fortunate position compared to much of society. I think it's important we keep this in mind and try to support those less lucky than us where we can.

I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.