Privileged Quotes

We earned the 'Line of Duty' audience's loyalty over a number of years, and I feel privileged to have that.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.

In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communication workers, garbagemen and firemen. These people -- the employed, the somewhat privileged -- are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

I'm very lucky. I'm the most fortunate guy that I know.

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

Reverse Robin Hood—take from the needy and give to the greedy.

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

I'm very fortunate, and I know that.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

I'm very fortunate to have worked at two unbelievable clubs, Manchester City and Barcelona, and I feel like I've really changed the way I look at football from being around and in those environments, so I feel really privileged.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.