Unjustified Privilege Quotes

When I reflect on the pompous titles bestowed on unworthy men, I feel an indignity that instructs me to despise the absurdity. The Honourable plunderer of his country, or the Right Honourable murderer of mankind, create such a contrast of ideas as exhibit a monster rather than a man. Virtue is inflamed at the violation, and sober reason calls it nonsense.

Great accumulations of wealth cannot be justified on the basis of personal and family security. In the last analysis such accumulations amount to the perpetuation of great and undesirable concentration of control in a relatively few individuals over the employment and welfare of many, many others.

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

The Reagan people want four more years, but the way they're going some of them will get ten to twenty.

[A] privilege takes flight when abused.

In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification.

Monopolies are sacrifices of the many to the few … it is much more to be dreaded that the few will be unnecessarily sacrificed to the many

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

Anyone here own 4 suits? Three suits? Even 2 suits? Well J. P. Morgan has over 100 suits, each one stolen off the back of a working man.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Your chief has made a mistake which delights malicious gloaters He has chosen an infidel as his secretary when he could, had he wished, have chosen a Believer. Through him, the Jews have become great and proud and arrogant—they, who were among the most abject And have gained their desires and attained the utmost and this happened suddenly, before they even realized it. And how many a worthy Muslim humbly obeys the vilest ape among these miscreants.

Politicians remain in power although they violate the rules.

Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Little sins are great when great men commit them.

The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

The fallacies of the new egalitarianism come largely from having ripped the notion of equality loose from its context. The result is to turn it into a principle vagrant and homeless, and identifiable in fact only if a quasi-theological context is unconsciously imported.

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.