Privileged Quotes - Page 4

• The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

  Clive James

  Essence, Class, Justice

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. I find them very irksome. Very difficult to like. They are privileged, but they don't want to talk about their privilege. It's difficult to find poetry amongst these people. Some sort of hidden spirit of beauty.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Patriotic, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like to take CEOs into consumers' homes to see the "real world." CEOs have privileged lives with big incomes, lots of help, access to just about anything they wish. The average consumer lives on $53,000 a year and has daily tradeoffs and compromises that must be made. I took a CEO into a trailer park so he could observe first-hand - and understand - how consumers use his product.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Real, Home, Average

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.

  Gladys Knight

  Memories, Looks, Talent

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• I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.

  Amira Hass

  Children, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Feelings, Naked

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• Life is a journey, and one thing's for sure: You don't see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We're privileged to be here, so instead of just using God's resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it - or at least leave it the same.

  Joel Cunningham

  Life, Journey, Littles

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• I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Thinking, Monsters, Backgrounds

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• I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Memories, Team, Hockey

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• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  Bianca Jagger

  Divorce, Years, Parent

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

  Joanna Russ

  Believe, Thinking, Acting

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press

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• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Mean, Differences, Parent

  "Tamara Ecclestone: I'm just a normal girl who happens to be worth £3billion". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.

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• Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

  Bianca Jagger

  Suffering, Members

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• Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.

  Chris Hani

  Drinking, Water, Long

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• Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Consciousness, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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• It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Impact, Comfort, Watches

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

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• 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 most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

  Stephen Fry

  Ideas, People, Facts

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• 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 of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Powerful, Thinking, Men

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• Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

  Jennifer Egan

  Life, Unique, Keys

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.74, Anchor

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• Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Lying, Statistics, Measurement

  "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.

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• People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Home, School

  "Confrontation with reality". Margaret Thatcher's speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 14, 1977.

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• You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

  James Agee

  Fall, People, Justice

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin

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• I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mother, Daughter, Want

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• Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Luxury

  "Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

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• To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Excellence, Today

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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