Quotes About Status

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción, y no su estatuto de reproductor.

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción.

Joissakin yhteiskunnissa kysytään ensin, onko hän naimisissa ja onko hänellä lapsia; meidän yhteiskunnassamme ihmiseltä kysytään ensimmäiseksi ammattia. Länsimaisen ihmisen määrittää hänen paikkansa tuotantoketjussa, ei niinkään status suvunjatkajana.

Popularity can be a real headache.

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.

I've met plenty of fancy people. They're too scared to have any real ambition

Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success.

I bless God daily for the bonds of affection that have held us together and brought us through the pestilence. To be loved and honored for who we are, and not what our status represents, is surely the lesson He wanted us to learn when he sent His son to live as a carpenter and not as a king. The future will be bright indeed when even the humblest are given the chance to prove their worth.

Men's slaves, their hearts are greedy, The great do not mingle with their people when they rejoice.

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.

Quien identifique las barreras que protegen a los poderosos y averigüe si están elevándose o debilitándose, tendrá valiosas pistas para anticipar hacia dónde se moverá el poder.

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

El «sentimiento de prestigio» que según Max Weber era el anhelo profundo de un político está desvaneciéndose, por la sencilla razón de que el poder subyacente de los cargos políticos está menguando.

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, men earned most of the income for the family, while women, as "traditional housewives," were responsible for providing services to family members and converting money into status.54 This was seen most clearly in the value placed on neatness, cleanliness, decorations, and entertaining as lavishly as budgets would allow.

The evolutionary ladder of lies, lies - this is a jetpack in the ladder of social status, and people seem so small this gives rise to misanthropy and sociopathy. Honest people are homeless people or corpses. In the evolution of monopoly by self-interest and profit, only the manipulative lies of populism and marketing, the acting of hypocritical greed, are being improved. Lying is the daughter of greed. Lies turn us into atheists, immerse in skepticism all the brightest and most beautiful.

Being rich is associated with being intelligent in our society. Thus, all the billionaires and millionaires make sense every time they talk.

Love is not seen as something of great status. Power is left untouched by the hunger for power and knowledge is neglected.

One wife is justified to the common men. But the higher you climb the ladder of power and success, the more women you'll meet along the way.

The more you own, the more likely you are to be proud. It can be in the form of holding office or high position.

The wife of a king is well known as the queen. But the queen's husband is mostly scorned to the title of prince.