Quotes About Status

Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained without losing one's honor. An infernal circle whirling round and round, draggng me up and down with it.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Only the elites despise earning money.

where curiosity could be assuaged, prestige maintained, and personal responsibility dissolved. With

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

In general, the best clue to a nation's growth and development potential is the status and role of women. This is the greatest handicap of Muslim Middle Eastern societies today, the flaw that most bars them from modernity

The peacock's gaudy tail does not enable him to fly any higher, but it raises his status in the eyes of the peahen.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

As the costs of storing and retrieving information have collapsed, sharing expertise ought to be easy. But the cooperative approach based on openness and trust undermines the status of managers, whose wealth depends on the ability to create the impression that they have knowledge that their subordinates cannot be trusted to share.

hierarchical cultures of business and the state, where status determines access to information, and criticism is met with punishment. Nearly all of us work in hierarchies. Nearly all of us bite our tongues when we should speak freely. Yet few of the classic or modern texts on freedom of speech discuss freedom of speech at work, even though, as the crash of 2008 showed, self-censorship in the workplace can be as great a threat to national security as foreign enemies are.

fundamental flaw of modern capitalism is that businesses promote bombastic people. As Cameron Anderson and Sébastien Brion of the University of California, Berkeley, showed experimentally, 'In conditions where there is any ambiguity in competence and performance (which is common in organisations), overconfident individuals will be perceived as more competent by others, and attain higher levels of status, compared to individuals with more accurate self-perceptions of competence.

Some wield money like a blunt instrument, bludgeoning their way to what they want. Others hold it up like a flashing light. Look! See how important I am! I prefer to employ it as a lubricant, to ease the wear and tear of daily living.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

Actually I myself was more worried about her status after the Cultural Revolution. If there was to be a new society in which descendants of capitalist families were to become a permanently unprivileged class in China, like the untouchables in India, her life would be unthinkable.

Brak je samo za temperamentne stare djevice, iscije?ene prostituke i kraljevske parove.

It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been a person of no consequence. Though, indeed, his position even now was not reckoned of consequence in comparison with others of still greater consequence.

Ma l'autore si vergogna molto, a occupare così a lungo i lettori con gente di basso livello, sapendo per esperienza che essi fanno conoscenza malvolentieri con i ceti bassi. È pur così l'uomo russo: ha una gran passione a frequentare quelli che sia pure di un solo grado gli stanno sopra, e un reciproco toccarsi il cappello all'incontro con un conte o un principe è per lui meglio di qualsiasi intimo rapporto amichevole.

She gave in to the pride of a society beauty, and she became determined to become the best among the worst, whose circle she was entering

One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.

Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.

There was class distinction in the RAF, as there was and still is in British society as a whole. It was said, for example, that a regular officer was an officer trying to be a gentleman, an auxiliary was a gentleman trying to be an officer and a VR was neither trying to be both.