Quotes About Status

No one enjoys being equal.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

there is but only one form of socioeconomic society whereby all members of its social group hold unmerited equal status...A social collective/socialist or slave society!".

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

Broke a.. ni...'s can't roll with me and even rich ni...'s can't get a hold of me.

Beauty is simply a perfect composition of a status.

I swear, if Facebook changes their layout one more time, I'm going to post a status update about it & then use their site as much as always.

Never be too proud of who you are and what position you hold because after a game of chess the kings and pawns are tossed into the same box.

That awkward moment when you see a 10 year old child with a better phone than yours.

I lifted my chin, so they would know I was a man of some importance. I had worn the finest tunic I could find—one of Achilles'.

Tidak setiap orang yang berlaku proletar adalah seorang proletar, dan tidak setiap orang yang berperilaku baik adalah seorang aristokrat

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

there are the parents, then the sons, then the daughter, then the pigs in the pig-pen and the hens in the henhouse, then the apprentice and then, right at the bottom, the serving maids. Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen. Agnes

How can they not have invited him to this meeting? He used to have influence – he used to rule over them all. He used to be someone.

It is the omnipresence of Being that is responsible for hiding Being behind the scenes and giving It the status of the omniscient, omnipotent supreme lord of the universe.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

The relationship to age is an expression of social inequality.

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it's a great way to travel!

absorb them, and relegate them to the status

But they were at least allowed to retain the fig leaf of royal status.