442 Quotes About Privilege

Im Kapitalismus wie im Kommunismus läuft alles (...) auf eine falsche Vorstellung hinaus, die wir vor vierzig Jahren beinahe überwunden hätten: auf den Trugschluss, ein Leben ohne Armut sei kein Recht, auf das alle Menschen Anspruch hätten, sondern ein Privileg, für das man arbeiten müsse.

Seclusion is a right, not a privilege

There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?

Freedom is viewed as a ‘right’ to those who don’t yet understand that everything is a ‘privilege.

The Island had taken a soft, privileged woman and chewed her up, remoulded her into something else, something raw, and desperate.

Praying is a precious privilege.

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

The ax forgets; the tree remembers.

And then what? Kate would teach this baby words… in order to tell her how privileged she was? To start planting those seeds of doubt and self-recrimination before she'd even taken her first steps? Make this child question herself, rather than blossom confidently?