privileged quotes

They were privileged children†they would always expect to be greeted with smiles.

- Anita Brookner
  Lewis Percy, ch.9.

The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural† It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of privategain; itcannot be hiddenaway for thebenefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for.

-Jose   Clemente Orozco
ALL1929  Creative Art.

Who will dare deny that theThird Estate contains within itself all that is needed to constitute a nation?† What would theThird Estate be without theprivileged classes? It would be a whole in itself, and a prosperous one. Nothing can be done without it, and everything would be done far better without the others.

-Sie'  yes
  Qu'est-ce que le tiers-e  tat?

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and fromthemass of thenationonlynot from its privileged classes.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  A ConnecticutYankee in King Arthur's Court, ch.25.