Privilege System Quotes

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Tory society is a closed society, in which birth and wealth have priority.

Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

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

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. They had their own hospital, their own shops, country houses, and blocks of flats, special lanes on the streets so they could bypass the traffic in their special cars.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Those who desire the good of all begin by the abolition of special privilege.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.