Quotes about Privilege

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.

Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth.

She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way.