Citas privilegiadas

• We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Country, Important, Storm

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• The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Power, Viewpoints, Underprivileged

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• La policía puede ir al centro de Harlem y coger a un chaval con un porro en la calle. Pero no pueden ir a los apartamentos elegantes y coger a un corredor de bolsa que está esnifando cocaína.

  Noam Chomsky

  Niños, Privilegio Blanco, Racismo

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Entrevista con Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. 24 de abril de 2013.

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• Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

  Tammy Bruce

  Giving Up, Class, Progress

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.69, Crown Forum

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• For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

  George Orwell

  Running, Ignorance, Thinking

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

  Italo Calvino

  New York, America, Horror

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

  Sheldon Richman

  Looks, May, Acknowledge

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• I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Money, Dad, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 06, 2011

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• Sentía que quería que el mundo estuviera uniformado y en una especie de atención moral para siempre; no quería más excursiones desenfrenadas con atisbos privilegiados del corazón humano.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Corazón, Para Siempre, Vislumbrar

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). "Colección Ecos de la Era del Jazz: Hermosos y malditos, Sueños de invierno, El gran Gatsby, Babilonia revisitada, El diamante tan grande como el Ritz y muchos más", p.480, e-artnow.

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• Un jardín debe hacerte sentir que has entrado en un espacio privilegiado -un lugar no sólo apartado, sino reverberante- y me parece que, para lograrlo, el jardinero debe dar alguna vuelta de tuerca al paisaje existente, convertir su prosa en algo más cercano a la poesía.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Space, Twists

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Song, Kings

  Isak Dinesen (1987). "Memorias de África", Crown Pub

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• Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Law, Privilege

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• I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

  Arthur Golden

  Beautiful, Men, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House

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• Sr. Rochester, si alguna vez hice una buena acción en mi vida, si alguna vez tuve un buen pensamiento, si alguna vez recé una oración sincera e irreprochable, si alguna vez tuve un deseo justo, ahora soy recompensada. Ser su esposa es, para mí, ser tan feliz como puedo serlo en la tierra.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Oración, Sacrificio, Expectativas

  "Jane Eyre: Mejorado con un extracto de La loca de arriba".

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• The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Confused, Voice, Mass

  "In love with business" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

  Matthew Gregory Lewis

  Book, Writing, Animal

  Matthew Gregory Lewis (1832). “The Monk ... Printed Verbatim from the First London Edition”, p.178

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• Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

  Chinua Achebe

  Charity, Philanthropy, Opium

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• What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

  Michael Cunningham

  Running, Morning, Simple

  Michael Cunningham (2013). “The Hours”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Powerful, Organization, Liberty

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 2: "The Creative Power of a Free Civilization", 1960.

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• There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Lonely, Zoos, Men

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• the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Teacher, Adventure

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• When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.

  Jeff Kinney

  Arte, Libro, Hogar

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• It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

  Mijaíl Bakunin

  Corazón, Hombres, Mente

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• Si te llaman para tocar en un servicio religioso, es un honor mayor que si fueras a tocar un concierto en el órgano más fino del mundo... Dad gracias a Dios cada vez que tengáis el privilegio de sentaros ante la consola del órgano y asistir a la adoración del Todopoderoso.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Church Service, Play, Honor

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