Privileged Quotes

399 quotes by 362 authors

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated. — Russell Banks
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian… — Aravind Adiga
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and… — Gray Davis
I don't come from a privileged background. — Bernardine Dohrn
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level… — David Deutsch
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is… — James Frey
I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged. — Petra Stunt
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in… — Antonia Fraser
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also… — Anthony Giddens
I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity. — Tulsi Gabbard
I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense… — Derek Jacobi
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license… — Bill Kurtis
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success. — James Fox
The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from… — James Morcan
It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and… — Kayla Mueller
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist Iâ€™m privileged in… — Nancy Spero
I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich. — Joe Kyrillos
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the… — George Bernard Shaw

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