Margrethe Vestager Quotes

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

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

We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.

The legislation of one nation is sometimes intentionally made to bear heavily upon the interests of another. That legislation, adapted, as it is meant to be, to the special interests of its own people, will often press most unequally upon the several component interests of its neighbors.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.

I always put people with my kind of background first.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

There are so many double standards, not just in rap, but everywhere.

I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or another.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.

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'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

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.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.

It has more repercussion when the referee favours us than when we are harmed.

Unfairness is everywhere.