Quotes about Privilege

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her.

For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. That is true enough in a sense, but your lungs are thinking about the air if you are not. And so it is with your rich people: they may not be thinking of money, but they're breathing it all the while; take them into another element and see how they squirm and gasp!

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.

As I'm coming to realize more and more, God holds everything together in a mysterious quantum entanglement. With each breath we participate in the life-death-life pattern that always ends in resurrection. My hope is that each of us will choose to participate consciously, aware of this privilege and delight in being co-creators with God. Just pray that I can do whatever God wants me to do.

Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure.