Quotes About Privileged

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.

I've been blessed in so many ways.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door.

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

I'm blessed to be able to serve you.

We approach our recruiting in unapologetically elitist fashion.

We don't need to allow our vision of justice to be constrained only by what seems realistic from the perspective of today, and especially not by what powerful & privileged groups deem acceptable or pragmatic.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.