442 Quotes About Privilege

Privileged people can feel the way these identities threaten their privileged status and the benefits that they receive as a result. For this reason also, trying to reassure hegemony that these identities are not a threat to it (for the purpose of being "accepted" into society) is moot. Hegemony is right to feel threatened, because there's no way one could change social order without deconstructing power.

Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut."You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.

he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.

When the wind is at your back, you don't even notice itBut when it is blowing in your face, you become very aware of it's presence.That's how it is with privilege:When you have it, you don't even notice itWhen you don't have it - you know.

My mullet was an insecurity shield. My mullet was an ethnic hatchet. My mullet was an arrow on fire.My mullet said to the literary world, "Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

If I am to cherish anything to the fullest I must humbly embrace it as an undeserved ‘privilege,’ for to nonchalantly handle anything as other than a ‘privilege’ is to handle things of immense value and in the holding be entirely oblivious to what I’m holding.

That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.