Privilege Quotes

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.

~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

~ Kate Bornstein

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

~ Jeff Goins

Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.

~ Dashanne Stokes

One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I’m present whether I’m present or not. It’s not fair, but that’s the system. What can I do about it?

~ Erin O'riordan

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

~ Alice Walker

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets...

~ Oscar Wilde

Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.

~ Eric Jerome Dickey

As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Present injustices exist not so much because simple individuals are acting in bad faith or lacking in charity, but because huge, impersonal systems (that seem beyond the control of the individuals acting within them) disprivilege some even as they unduly privilege others.

~ Ronald Rolheiser

Check your privilege, Hitler! I'm a nut job, not an asshole.

~ Rick Remender

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

~ John Green

You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

~ Tiffany Reisz

I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.

~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

~ Francis Bacon

People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

~ C. Wright Mills

Privilege is something else.Privilege is a judgment.Privilege is an opinion.Privilege is an accusation.

~ Joan Didion

How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.

~ Valerie Baber

To know God`s laws and abide by them is a privilege.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

~ George Vecsey

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

~ Voltaire

Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.

~ Thomas Becket

'Homefront' was written by Sylvester Stallone. He actually wrote it for himself, which is, for me, an amazing privilege: To be handed a script by Sly that he wrote for himself, that he asked me to do.

~ Jason Statham

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

~ Paul Nurse

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

~ Charles Lamb

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

~ Antonio Banderas

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

~ Joseph Campbell