#vile

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty #courage #honor #ignorance #money

The better you look, the more you see. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#privilege #beauty

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#madame-vileroy #useless #change

Naming oppressive realities, in and of itself, has not brought about the kinds of changes for oppressed groups that it can for more privileged groups, who command a different quality of attention. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#even #ever #gotten #huge #i

In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his mother and father, it seemed like something that would never change. Yet look how easily he had lost that rank and privilege! A person's fortune could turn at any time. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#change #fall-from-grace #privilege #change

I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them. ↗

— Cheryl Benard

#education #privilege #courage

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#history #power #privilege #education

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#privilege #rights #equality

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#belong #candidate #different #groups #honest