Privileged Status Quotes

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

On what spot on this habitable globe does an Israelite enjoy more blessings, more privileges, or is more elevated in the sphere of preferment, and more conspicuously dignified in respectable stations? …. Have we not reason to exult?

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

If I had to name one thing that differentiates me from the other women, it's that I get free stuff at restaurants or get discounts.

All modern political parties and all modern party ideologies originated as a reaction on the part of special group interests fighting for a privileged status against liberalism.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The processes of history in themselves … pose an interesting question- among so many others, that of their status. The status of a process may be affirmative, negative or interrogative. But the status of historical discourse is uniformly assertive, affirmative. The historical fact is linguistically associated with a privileged ontological status: we recount what has been, not what has not been, or what has been uncertain … historical discourse is not acquainted with negation.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

I'm about as privileged as you can get. I'm a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.

LeBron is LeBron. They're not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling system. And opinions? Well, I've yet to meet people without opinions.