Rich Privilege Quotes

#1. The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

Jonathan Kozol

#2. And what did you do, Matthias? What did you do to me in you dreams?"
"Everything," he said, as he turned to go, "Everything.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Anthony Liccione

#4. Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor
one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

George MacDonald

#5. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

Oscar Wilde

#6. We were made to get along, to be together, and
it's a truth that's medically attested... Love and dance and connection strengthen every bodily system, while isolation, rage and sadness poison them with cortisol.

Steven Heighton

#7. The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

Aldous Huxley

#8. It is no surprise that the people trying so frantically to extend our lifespans are almost entirely rich, white men. Men who have lived lives of systematic privilege, and believe that privilege should extend indefinitely.

Caitlin Doughty

#9. Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

John Fowles

#10. Is this seat taken?" a warm sexy drawl asked and I lifted my gaze and smiled up at Dank.
"Yes. I'm saving it for my smoking hot boyfriend," I replied teasingly.
Dank slid in beside me and put his arm around my shoulder. "Hmmm, well he should have gotten here sooner. You snooze, you lose.

Abbi Glines

#11. The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least
the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. [M]aking a show was better cover than trying to stay inconspicuous; Western capitalism in particular allowed the rich just about the right amount of behavioural leeway to account for the oddities our alienness might produce.

Iain M. Banks

#13. We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

Adrienne Rich

#14. I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.

Sara Sheridan

#15. A fairy's kiss also has the power to kill,

Amber Argyle

#16. Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

#17. There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

David Karp

#18. To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#19. I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.

Laura Mvula

#20. The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.

John G. Lake

#21. It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Rich Robinson

#22. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.

Nikki Rowe

#23. Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

Doug Henwood

#24. Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking.

Peter Straub

#25. So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets ...

Oscar Wilde