Privilege Quotes

Most popular privilege quotes

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quote.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

principles

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
Privilege, almost by definition, requires that someone else pay the price for its enjoyment.

enjoyment

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. - William Beveridge, quote.
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

pessimism

The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease. - Pearl Buck quote.
The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
The Privileged and the People formed Two Nations. - Benjamin Disraeli quote.
The Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of justice. - Marie von Eschenbach quote.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of justice.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. - Arianna Stassinopoulos quote.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. - Helen Keller quote.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

fortune attitude

The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.  Even in its grandeur it stinks. - Henry Miller quote.
The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.  Even in its grandeur it stinks.
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. - Susan Sarandon quote.
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
Privilege begets privilege.
I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious.  White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.