Privileged Quotes

399 quotes by 362 authors

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable… — Stephen Fry
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didnâ€™t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is… — Jennifer Egan
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map… — Alice Hoffman
There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to… — Diane Setterfield
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can… — Henri Nouwen
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary… — Naomi Wolf
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe,… — Deepak Chopra
Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be â€œjust humansâ€ within the framework of white supremacy has… — Bell Hooks
Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. — John Grisham
I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you… — Markus Zusak
He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air… — Arthur C. Clarke
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. — Donald Barthelme
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. — Khaled Hosseini
It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it. — Kate Bornstein
It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them… — Richelle Mead
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority… — Theodore Kaczynski
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to… — Richard Dawkins

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