Margo Jefferson Quotes

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Language does not make one an elite.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.