Privileged Quotes · Page 18

The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help…

— Pope John Paul II

I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not…

— Amira Hass

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too…

— Salma Hayek

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the…

— Helen Keller

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to…

— Judith Rodin

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I…

— Rory McIlroy

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

— Bell Hooks

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in,…

— Tom Morello

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never…

— Anonymous

The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope…

— Bruno Senna

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness…

— Kerry James Marshall

Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in…

— Aravind Adiga

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I…

— Charlotte Bronte

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the…

— John F. Kennedy

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

— Robin Morgan

I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first…

— Edgar Mitchell

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion…

— Henry Selick

I absolutely love my job. I feel so privileged: I get to travel the world, I get to witness history... and I'm…

— Clarissa Ward

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy…

— Laura Wade

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably…

— Timothy Noah