Privileged Quotes - Page 8

• For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Class, Training

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

  Ishmael Reed

  White, Feminist, Racist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Struggle, Successful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have, we're so privileged. We live in a world that's so far from what the Palestinian children are going through, it's unbelievable. Yet if we dare to get close to that atrocity and name it, it would shock us so badly we couldn't live in our privileged comfort zone.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Children, Names, America

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• I really do fervently believe that every child deserves to have the kind of access to educational opportunities, broadly defined, including music and sports, that I enjoyed. So, I'm trying to do my part, and I believe that all of us with a privileged background who are fortunate enough to have had that kind of access have a responsibility to try to pass it on.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Sports, Children, Educational

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

  Gene Robinson

  Believe, Moving, Teaching

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• When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

  Jim Holt

  Trying, World, Assuming

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• I love playing for my country. I see it as the biggest privilege of my career, so there's no way I'm going to volunteer to give that up. I want to go on for as long as I can. I've got 68 caps and I'd love to think I could get 100. I know there are some players who reach their 30s and announce their international retirement. I totally understand and respect their decisions. We are away a lot and for long spells. But although it's hard, we're doing one of the most privileged jobs in the world.

  John Terry

  Country, Retirement, Jobs

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• The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civilization, Alcohol, Tragedy

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• Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

  Ben Shapiro

  Country, Generations, Empty

  Ben Shapiro (2013). “Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future”, p.13, Regnery Publishing

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• We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Views, Special, Kind

  "People say I'm strident" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

  Terence McKenna

  Order, Planets

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• Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Determination, Attitude, Persistence

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• Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Class, Two, Gains

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• I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have. I think if you're one of a lucky five, maybe, you're that privileged, but most of us are living paycheck to paycheck and we're really extremely grateful for opportunities.

  Famke Janssen

  Grateful, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Famke Janssen Talks TAKEN 2, HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, HEMLOCK GROVE, Her Directorial Debut BRINGING UP BOBBY and Follow-Up RIO ROJO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

  Dick Cheney

  Hatred, Unity, Prosperity

  Remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 24, 2004.

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• It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. 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

  Nice, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

  Idris Elba

  Littles, Overwhelmed, Backgrounds

  "Idris Elba on ‘Luther’, Movie Possibilities, Neil Cross, His Upcoming Album, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.

  Laurence Shames

  Thinking, Names, Careers

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me.

  Lewis Baltz

  Views, Shopping, Growth

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• It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Years, Crafts

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• I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Growing Up, White, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Character, Fiction, Autobiography

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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