Viv Albertine Quotes

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

Rugged individualism really means the regimentation of the many for the benefit of the few.

Many of the ideas that accompany privilege talk, if implemented, would wreak havoc on human wellbeing. If people truly acknowledged their privilege, they would show a greater concern for the forces behind it, which permit them to lead long, healthy, educated, leisure-filled lives, all the while incessantly complaining about the unadulterated evils of modern civilization.

White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.