Privileged Quotes:

Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

- Graciela Chichilnisky

source: "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

topic: Trying, Position, Privileged

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

topic: Men, Class, Privileged

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

- Frederick Sommer

topic: Photography, Conditions, Privileged

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Order, Planets, Privileged

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

- Marco Rubio

source: Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

topic: Citizens, Humans, Privileged

To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Choices, Privileged

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

- Robert K. Greenleaf

source: Robert K. Greenleaf (1998). “The Power of Servant-Leadership”, p.264, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Quality, Achieve, Privileged

All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.

- Mohsin Hamid

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Perspective, World, Privileged

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Children, Obligation, Privileged

We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

- Kabir Sehgal

topic: Country, Important, Storm, Privileged, Safe Harbor

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

topic: Power, Viewpoints, Underprivileged, Value Systems, Privileged

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Kids, Racism, Police, Iniquity, Black People

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

- Tammy Bruce

topic: Giving Up, Class, Progress, Social Progress, Privileged

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

- George Orwell

topic: Running, Ignorance, Thinking, Privileged, 1984 Important

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

- Italo Calvino

source: Italo Calvino (2014). “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: New York, America, Horror, Provinces, Privileged

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

- Sheldon Richman

topic: May, Looks, Acknowledge, Privileged

I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Money, Dad, Feelings, Want To Be With You, Privileged

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Heart, Forever, Glimpse, Privileged, Excursions

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Garden, Space, Twists, Privileged

The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Running, Song, Stars, Long Grass, Privileged

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Mean, Law, Privilege, Privileged

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

- Arthur Golden

source: Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House

topic: Beautiful, Men, Long, Memories Of A Geisha, Privileged

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

topic: Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations, Mr Rochester, Privileged

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: "In love with business" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

topic: Confused, Voice, Mass, Privileged

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

- Matthew Gregory Lewis

source: Matthew Gregory Lewis (1832). “The Monk ... Printed Verbatim from the First London Edition”, p.178

topic: Book, Writing, Animal, Privileged

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Charity, Philanthropy, Opium, Privileged

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Running, Morning, Simple, Privileged

The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

topic: Powerful, Organization, Liberty, Privileged

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Names, Black, Pits, Londoners, Sweeney Todd

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

- George Steiner

topic: Dream, Teacher, Adventure, Privileged

When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.

- Jeff Kinney

topic: Privileged, Abram

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

- Mikhail Bakunin

topic: Heart, Men, Mind, Privileged

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Church Service, Play, Honor, Privileged

Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.

- Gladys Knight

topic: Memories, Looks, Talent, Privileged

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Authority And Power, Earth, Christ, Privileged

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

- Clive James

topic: Essence, Class, Justice, Privileged, Class System

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

- Pope Francis

topic: Religious, Grandparent, Important, Privileged, Passing On

There are very few lows but lots and lots of highs. You're in an incredibly privileged position because you're able to go along to major sporting events and be ringside. You can see and hear everything.

- Jill Douglas

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Able, Events, Lows, Privileged

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

- James C. Scott

source: "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

topic: Gossip, Rumor, World, Privileged, Anthropologists

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.

- Tony Benn

topic: Stress, Government, Law, Privileged, Work Stress

I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Courage, Lunch, League, Hunger And Poverty, Privileged

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

topic: Mean, Men, Class, Insults You, Privileged

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Business, People, Giving, Privileged, Positive Business

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Order, Sahara, Privileged

Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

- Theodore Kaczynski

source: Theodore J. Kaczynski (2010). “Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.”, p.41, Feral House

topic: Ghetto, Average, Black, Privileged, Dwellers

It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK

topic: Girl, Teenage, Couple, Teenage Girl, Privileged

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: Mother, Strong, Past, Privileged

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Pride, Would Be, Remember, Privileged

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Good Man, Vulnerable, Manners, Privileged

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Life, Perseverance, Two Roads, Privileged

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

- Spiro T. Agnew

topic: Men, Liberty, Libertarian, Privileged

I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.

- Pico Iyer

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Country, Wall, Distance, Privileged, Newcomers

Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.

- Warren MacKenzie

topic: Thinking, Artist, Numbers, Privileged, Nicholson

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

- Christiane Amanpour

topic: Mistake, Cnn, World, Privileged

I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?

- Laura Marling

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Character, Thinking, Perception, Privileged

The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Voice, Support, World, Privileged

It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids so they don't get totally sucked into the materialism and celebrity culture.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Kids, Important, Culture, Privileged, Celebrity Culture

I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.

- David E. Cooper

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Art, Reading, Book, Privileged