Quotes About Status

We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

If you have enough money and a good name, you can do anything. CORNELIA GUEST

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

In my opinion, this school and its contemporaries were nothing more than cheap merchants of social status, selling an inflated sense of self-worth to middle-class boys of no particular merit. I will, however, grant them something. Without the first school, I would not have ended up at the second. Without the second, I would not have attended St Oswald's. Without St Oswald's, I would not have met Finn. Without Finn, there would be no story.

He almost thought of being a boyfriend as like being a duke or an earl; it was as if he had land to oversee now, and ribbons to cut.

They predicted sixteen years ago, almost before anyone else, that girls like me - prettier, smarter, healthier - would be the world's most invaluable resource. And like any rare commodity in an unregulated marketplace, prices for our services would skyrocket. It wasn't about the money, really, not at first. It was about status. Who had it, and who didn't. And my parents did everything in their power to make sure I had it.

But a dog confers status on a man. It shows he is responsible and capable of love. It will probably even help him get laid.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

One way to destroy a personality is to cut out memory: one way to destroy a state is to cut out its history. Especially when that history comes out of the native language. Status is gone; continuity is disconnected;

It was Ernest Lawrence, for instance, who elevated engineers to coequal status in the accelerator lab—physicists in Europe, by contrast, "tended to shun the 'dirty' details of engineering," which surely accounted for Europe's lagging behind the United States in accelerator technology, though

The "Donation" further alleged that Constantine, for the first time, had declared the bishop of Rome to be "Vicar of Christ" and offered him the status of emperor.

between 1195 and 1220, Wolfram composed his epic romance Parzival, he conferred on the Templars a most exalted status.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

A lower-ranking official was served tea on a plain tray. Once he reached the rank of chief of sector, the tray suddenly sprouted a napkin. In apparatchik-speak, the promotion was referred to as 'receiving the napkin.

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

there is one path to ultimate happiness—having money—that in turn comes from attending prestigious colleges.

suppose it was an uninformed jab at my family background (he thought we were rich), and what he really meant was, "At least Mangum has to work for a living." The D.A. confused class with wealth—often the case with those who lack the former.

they are flaunting their special status. Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.

Switzerland has changed the status of animals to "beings" instead of "things," and Germany was the first nation to grant animals a constitutional right when they added the words "and animal" to a provision obliging the state to respect and protect human dignity.

Trump, perhaps not yet appreciating the difference between becoming president and elevating his social standing,

in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.

Trump's home in Beverly Hills