Gary Hume Quotes

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

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.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

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

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

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

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

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.