Privilege And Entitlement Quotes

#1. Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Gloria Allred

#2. I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

George Woodcock

#3. He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.

Ahmad Ibn Rustah

#4. The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness.

Criss Jami

#5. Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.

Kate Tempest

#6. Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male in most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women.

Kate Bornstein

#7. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Mother Teresa

#8. The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Brene Brown

#10. The mountain remains unmoved in seeming defeat by the mist.

Anonymous

#11. Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. And after Beltane is over, we will have the pleasure of watching our queen deliciously poison her sisters." Natalia

Kendare Blake

#13. The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Maybe I should have been frightened of him. This older man who saw that I was alone, who felt like I owed him something, which was the worst thing a man like that could feel.

Emma Cline

#15. Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Tan Le

#17. The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

Thomas Merton

#18. Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?

Margaret Atwood

#19. To declare a thing is to possess it.

Lailah Gifty Akita