Accepting Quote by Steven Biko

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

— Joanna Russ

“The moral attitudes of dominant and privileged groups are characterised by universal selfdeception and hypocrisy. The unconscious and conscious identification of their special interests…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Being privileged doesn't mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance…

— Ijeoma Oluo

“When people wield accusations of privilege, more often than not, they want to be heard and seen. Their need is acute, if not desperate,…

— Roxane Gay

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is,…

— Michel de Montaigne

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently…

— C. Wright Mills

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

— Harry Shearer

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

— Truman Capote

“Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their privileges -…

— Tony Judt