Assertion Quote by Ellen Kushner

Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot…

— Amartya Sen

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

— Thomas J. Stanley

“Privilege, always the mark of elitism, is the restriction to a few (either on a financial, a racist or a sexist basis) of what…

— Elle

“Privilege is often invisible to those who have it. Try looking at the world from another perspective, listen to other people, then reconsider.”

— Nevo Zisin

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for…

— Silvia Cartwright

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Many people who live in expensive homes and drive luxury cars do not actually have much wealth. Then, we discovered something even odder: Many…

— Thomas J. Stanley

“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the…

— George Orwell

“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law, disaster-proof property…

— Olawale Daniel

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard…

— Thorstein Veblen