Privilege Preservation Quotes

America’s super-elite has been particularly effective at using the tools of a political democracy to protect its minority privilege.

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.