Top 1200 Class Privilege Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

My privilege as a celebrity doesn't disallow me pain.

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

Our Party conferred the honourable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class that supported the great leaders' ideas and leadership with loyalty.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

The Trump administration's economic agenda is the right agenda. Corporate taxes have been driving capital and brains and companies overseas for a decade. It has caused huge damage in investment and jobs and productivity. It was a mistake. We have to fix it. Counterintuitively, that usually helps middle-class wages, and lower-class wages, and job formation.

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.

I think the identity politics that have been played, particularly the class-warfare version of identity politics that has been played, has put America into a class-based society - more so than at any point in my lifetime.

It was an honour and a privilege to work for Arsene Wenger.

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

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

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

I feel that it is a privilege to make viewers laugh.

Working at Google is a privilege, nothing less.

Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Privilege does not operate without silence.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.

I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Obviously white privilege is a thing, 1000%.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.