Unearned Advantage Quotes

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

To call someone “privileged” is to say that his or her successes are undeserved. It’s a personal insult posing as social critique.

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

When you have privilege, you have to been quiet and listen.

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.

Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.