Privileged Quotes

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

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

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

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.

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I've been privileged to see the presidency up close. And I know the awesome responsibility of protecting America and the incredible opportunity of working to try to make life better for all of you.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

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.

In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.