privileged mindset Quotes

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.