Quotes about Privilege
He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).
— John Milton
Myself my sepulcher, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious To all the miseries of life.
— John Milton
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
— GK Chesterton
There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.
— Gordon Hinckley
A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
— Donald Trump
Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.
— Virginia Woolf
Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth.
— Virginia Woolf
She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.
— Virginia Woolf