Quotes about Privilege

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Wann immer du an jemandem etwas auszusetzen hast, sagte er, vergiss nicht, dass nicht alle auf dieser Welt einen so leichten Start hatten wie du.

What is certain is that to become of interest, for one's life to be interesting, has nothing to do with what you can turn your hand to but is a fateful privilege which, like every privilege in the world of spirit, can only be purchased in deep pain.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…