E. Digby Baltzell Quotes

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

I myself am a descendant of the European tribes, now called nations, that have established political, military, and economic dominance over the world. I confess to my sin of privilege and my reluctance to forego the perks my race and class afford me.

When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

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

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

My family, we're all WASPs.

I will see that the sons and daughters of the European colonists…have at least such an education…as will fit them to maintain their unquestioned superiority in this land.

It is impossible for white men to live with the coloured races without adopting a conviction that…they have the right to command the services of the less civilized.

The idea of progress has a couple of contradictions … it leads to Eurocenterism….

I hold that this government was established…for the benefit of white men and their prosperity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others.

When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority—whether religious, racial, genetic, ethnic, cultural, or institutional—rather than an accident of timing or geography.

Like it or not, most things in this country are run by white males.

The essence of racism is prejudice coupled with power ... Our primary experience is one of white privilege, even in places where whites may be a minority in the surrounding population.

I am accused of creating dukes, barons and knights. But who gave the white man the sole right to create the social order.

The great families have their privileges.

White men have too many chiefs.

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day

Ireland is a place where conditions are never normal—where class is distorted by race and an alien aristocracy.

We need never have white slaves in the South, because we have black ones. Our citizens, like those of Rome and Athens, are a privileged class. We should train and educate them to deserve the privileges and to perform the duties which society confers on them. Instead, by a low demagoguism depressing their self-respect by discourses on the equality of man, we had better excite their pride by reminding them that they do not fulfill the menial offices which white men do in other countries.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

The French are a feminine race, not manly like the Anglo-Saxons or Teutons.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.