Privileged Quotes

399 quotes by 362 authors

...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans,… — Paul Wellstone
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemortâ€™s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so… — Arthur Golden
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses. — John Kenneth Galbraith
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able… — Matthew Gregory Lewis
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. — Chinua Achebe
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. — Michael Cunningham
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond oneâ€™s own; to induce in… — George Steiner
Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws. — Terry Pratchett
The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over… — Isak Dinesen
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me… — Michael Pollan
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that… — Nicholas Sparks
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate… — George Orwell
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible â€” incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It… — Marilynne Robinson

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