Privileged People Quotes

#1. It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.

Marc Faber

#2. The case of Cecily Chandler is a perfect example of how privileged people get over on the system," the young man said. "Harry Chandler had a famous defense attorney for a lawyer, a slick talker who probably played tennis with the judge.

James Patterson

#3. Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people's experiences as an interpretive lens.

Matt Chandler

#4. Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

John Grisham

#5. I hate over-privileged people in general. You just happen to fall into that category. No offense. But Nykyrian said you weren't a total bitch so I'll trust him until you make him out a liar. (Hauk)
You seriously lack social skills, don't you? (Kiara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

Vijay Prashad

#7. 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

#8. The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Oscar Niemeyer

#9. I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

Ann Hood

#10. he found the idea of someone who was not only privileged, but was also sorry for himself because he thought the world didn't really understand the problems of privileged people, deeply obnoxious.

Douglas Adams

#11. I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Robert Runcie

#12. I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privileged than others, but that hasn't anything to do with being young

P.D. James

#13. People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

Emilia Fox

#14. The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

Norman Borlaug

#15. The Democratic Party would win in November because the Democratic Party was the people's party. The Republicans were the party of the privileged few, as always.

David McCullough

#16. A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.

George H. Smith

#17. The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.

Alex Honnold

#18. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

Bill O'Reilly

#19. The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Lowell Bergman

#20. The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class ...

Emma Goldman

#21. Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

Craig Venter

#22. People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

Jasmine Guinness

#23. Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

Tony Abbott

#24. 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.

Prince Andrew

#25. These people - the employed, the somewhat privileged - are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

Howard Zinn

#26. The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted
or rather tend to be corrupted
by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.

Vladimir Lenin

#27. There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

Dan Jenkins

#28. The privileged, we'll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

Cathy O'Neil

#29. By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

Catherine Tate

#30. It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#31. We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

Haskell Wexler

#32. I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

Jack Lew

#33. People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

Kevin Kwan

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

Antonia Fraser

#35. There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

Timothy West

#36. It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.

Christina Rickardsson

#37. I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Corin Tucker

#38. I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

Bobby Hull

#39. I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#40. I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us

Francis Hughes

#41. High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling system. And opinions? Well, I've yet to meet people without opinions.

Rob Manuel

#42. Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.

Doug Henwood

#43. There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

James Fox

#44. I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Paulo Coelho

#45. I'm talking about the number of privileged, highly intelligent, motivated career-track people that I know, from my high school or college, who are, if you look into their eyes, empty and miserable.

David Lipsky

#46. It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

Danny Glover

#47. Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

Julian Casablancas

#48. It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

Walter Lord

#49. I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

Lupita Nyong'o

#50. I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

Martin Parr

#51. I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

Denise Mina

#52. Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: 'Isn't that that Bening woman?'

Annette Bening

#53. What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual's soul.

Alice Hoffman

#54. Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.

Patricia Cornwell

#55. I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.

Jonathan Trigell

#56. There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

Jeff Greenfield

#57. In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

Amish Tripathi

#58. They see in the population's hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged.

Red Army Faction

#59. Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

Steve Wynn

#60. I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

Eleanor Roosevelt

#61. For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

Gary Locke

#62. I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

Marisa Berenson

#63. I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise ... No, that's one of the nice things about making music or making movies, is that art does have the power to affect people. I feel really privileged to be a part of that.

Zooey Deschanel

#64. I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together ... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

Denis Johnson

#65. People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Margaret Thatcher

#66. It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

Pope John Paul II

#67. On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

#68. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Cary Fukunaga

#69. I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#70. Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi

#71. There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.

Rami Malek

#72. People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#73. We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged.

Sarah Vowell

#74. I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.

Dylan Penn

#75. No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Franz Grillparzer

#76. It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

David Blunkett

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

Benjamin Disraeli

#78. Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man.

Michelle Hodkin

#79. I consider myself hugely privileged to work at such a wonderful place as Ashdown, where I can step back into history and be inspired by both the setting and the people associated with it.

Nicola Cornick

#80. Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

Ellen Ochoa

#81. When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

Timothy Keller

#82. I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.

Joyce Banda

#83. I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

Tulsi Gabbard

#84. Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth

Howard W. Hunter

#85. Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John F. Kennedy

#86. Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

Anderson Cooper

#87. At last, the crowd composed itself enough for Roosevelt to speak. "At present," he began, "both the old parties are controlled by professional politicians in the interests of the privileged classes." Together, they would forge a new Progressive Party, based on "the right of the people to rule.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#88. That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.

Douglas Wood

#89. When there is a message preached about how awesome God is.... most people can't comprehend, because they have not had the privileged to experience the presence of God, and receive a revelation from Him of who He is..........

Jennifer M. Malone

#90. To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

Cesar Luis Menotti

#91. People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.

Noam Chomsky

#92. Watch it." Josh bites into a pink apple and talks through a full mouth. "He has parts down there you don't have."
"Ooo, parts," I say. "Intriguing. Tell me more."
Josh smiles sadly. "Sorry. Privileged information. Only people with parts can know about said parts.

Stephanie Perkins

#93. People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

Amanda Harlech

#94. All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Zaha Hadid

#95. 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

#96. Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Ban Ki-moon

#97. My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

Julianne Moore

#98. We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.

Dick Van Patten

#99. We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.

Madonna Ciccone

#100. You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources ... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.

Azim Premji