Top 959 Privileged Quotes & Sayings

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.

All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.

I feel very privileged to do what I do.

One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have, we're so privileged. We live in a world that's so far from what the Palestinian children are going through, it's unbelievable. Yet if we dare to get close to that atrocity and name it, it would shock us so badly we couldn't live in our privileged comfort zone.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

I don't come from a privileged background.

It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so much. I'm privileged. I'm privileged to be on stage with them. That's all I can say. They're extremely generous. There are no egos in the room at all.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

Us, as footballers, are in a very privileged position.

I am privileged to have played basketball.

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

Football is for everyone. It's not for the privileged, it's not for the few, it's not for the elite.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

I am very privileged to have the parents and family that I do.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living.

There has to be - you know, this is like what I think Americans really have trouble with, an economy that's working for the privileged few, and there those privileged few are getting special favors from the political elite.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

Art is the job of the privileged.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can travel, etc. It's the same with writing: the freedom to move in and out of different places, of different realms of existence, of different life forms.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

I get to live a privileged existence.

I've had an enormously privileged working life.

I feel privileged with what I have... There's so much gratitude.

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

I'm privileged, and I thank God for the opportunity to play for River.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.

I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

I was privileged to serve as a judge.

I feel extremely lucky and privileged to have my achievements.

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

I didn't grow up overly privileged.

I feel privileged, to be honest.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

Top players are privileged in the chess world.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

The underprivileged are the only privileged ones in the eyes of Allah.

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

I am privileged to be a part of 'Tere Bin.'