Privelege Quotes

“...I believe our early experiences and beliefs about our place in the world inform who we think we are and what we deserve and by what means it should be given to us.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“It almost never feels like prejudice. Instead, it feels fitting and just - the idea that, because of an accident of birth, ‘our’ group (whichever one it is) should have a central position in the social universe.”
― Carl Sagan

“When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.”
― Romain Rolland, ژان کریستف: دوره ۴ جلدی

“Si vous voulez que je vous dise quel est le drâme de la poésie : c'est que la poésie est, malgré tout, un privilège aristocratique de naissance ; et que tous les privilèges conduise directement à la guillotine.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Suffering engenders wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves, or fall asleep, which also is to close the eyes, the hatred of the unfortunate classes lights its torch at some fretful or ill-formed mind which is dreaming in a corner, and begins to examine society. Examination by hatred, a terrible thing.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Menstruation is a small price you pay for being blessed with the grandest gift you can ever wish for, and that is, to have the privilege to give birth.”
― Tshetrim Tharchen, A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars