Quotes About Status

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.

Facebook should have a limit on how many times a relationship status can be change ... after 3 times it should be change default to UNSTABLE!

Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a neighboring sleeve. Young men's hands, with costly cuff links and the slimmest of watches, waved languorously at wine buckets and

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Love respects no status, it sees all as equals.

bosses were all vying with each other by working later and later. It was clear that exchanging emails late at night made her colleagues and bosses feel important.

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.

They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

In this time, if there is an ominous conspiracy underway in the United States, it would be the silent massive suspicion of a conspiracy which threatens home, job, status, the accustomed order of life.

If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and popularity.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

1840, the Republic of Texas began to address the liberal racial policies it had inherited from Mexico. The political status of afromexicanos and emancipated slaves was the most critical issue at hand. For most Anglo-Americans, afromexicanos were a nuisance, since they had the freedom to move freely among them and act as equals.52 Plus, free persons of African descent posed a political threat to Texas's new racial order because they were

Anger is about status injury.