Jim Carroll Quotes

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

You get into any club you want, you have backstage passes for any concert you can think of, anywhere. You have access to everything, in the same way a toddler does. Everybody's like, 'Oh come on in!'

To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.

I always put people with my kind of background first.

I don't think the world works on merit.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

I recognise that, while I was fortunate enough to grow up without any discrimination or stigma attached at all, other people haven't been so lucky.

I don't expect anyone who doesn't look like me to fix my problems.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

We have jobs in Maharashtra but outsiders are getting them. They are also getting admission in educational institutions depriving our children of their rights.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

I don't want to be elitist.

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.

You know how I know I'm white? I can cry myself out of a parking ticket.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

Nepotism and outsiders are two sides of the same coin that is Bollywood. They both have to co-exist. Both have their share of struggles.

Our system rewards specific talents more than anything. I got pushed forward for having certain capacities. Others had their horizons systematically lowered for having capacities that our academic system had no use for. I've seen countless people lose heart and feel like they should settle for less, that they don't deserve abundance.

Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.