Privileged Quotes

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Great, Men, Majority

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

Government, Rights, United

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
Hugo Chavez

Large, Destroyed, Elite

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.
David Beckham

Situation, Complain, Consider

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Power, Same, Cannot

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
Isabel Allende

Marriage, Women, Today

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
Ozzy Osbourne

Love, Stage, Audience

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
Marco Rubio

History, Society, Greatest

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
Daniel Radcliffe

Greatest, Acceptance, Grateful

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
Isabel Allende

Life, Everybody, Quality

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.
Susan Orlean

Truth, Someone, Wish

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
Henry Louis Gates

Parents, Brother, Treated

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
Anne Lamott

Good, Great, Beautiful

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Spiro T. Agnew

Men, Government, Elected

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
Dee Dee Myers

Thought, Young, Democratic

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Twyla Tharp

Best, Anyone, Luxury

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.
Imelda Marcos

God, Down, Face

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag

Seems, Taken, Large

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla Tharp

Study, Able, Last

It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.
Jimmy Buffett

Wonderful, Fans, Loyal

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
Mario Batali

Food, Different, Working

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
Orlando Bloom

Love, Actor, Paid

I feel privileged, to be honest.
Shirley Manson

I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access.
Kevin Mitnick

Great, Engineers, Rights

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.
Katherine Jenkins

Happy, Small, Understand

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
Jennifer Garner

Life, Freedom, Normal

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

Children, Obligation

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

Heart, Whether, Intellect

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
Antonia Fraser

Women, Fun, Woman

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Design, Greatest, Matter

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