Terry Pratchett Quotes

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

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

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

Moral indignation has a way of obscuring sober reasoning, and those who speak of privilege are often primed (by professors, peers, and media) to actively seek out moral transgressions. As such, many backwards beliefs and harmful attitudes have found a toehold amongst “privileged” millennials, who presume their views to be self-evidently righteous and thus not up for debate. Many of these views, were they to become widespread, would lead to the destruction of the privileges that we in the developed world are so fortunate to enjoy. These include free expression, freedom of the press, freedom of peaceful assembly, the rule of law, and ongoing efforts to judge people not by their phenotype but rather by their actions.

I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.

I treat everyone with the same respect they treat me with. Just because I earn more money doesn't make me more special than them or give me the right to talk to them in a certain manner.

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.