Quotes About Status

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

in California everyone wants to know what kind of car you drive. In the South it's which church you attend. And here it's what kind of dog you have.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Contrary to popular belief being rich (and having a lot of money) doesn't automatically mean you have class.

Money is a headache for both rich and poor people. They're simply different types of headaches.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood

Her idea of roughing it is not taking the second footman

He has a country house in Surrey, a daughter to educate and launch into Society, a wife to keep. He has kept pace for twenty years with an American millionaire, underwriting his own expeditions. What if he has gone to the well once too often?

Caring is what matters, not stuff or status, just people sharing kindness & joy in a web of the heart that spans the globe.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.

counted themselves among California's established

Few anglophones realize that by keeping French words in the "upper stratum" of their discourse, they are granting French a lofty position in their language and culture. As they export English all around the world, French and its high status have become part of the package. It's one of the least-known explanations for the resilience of French today.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Character is more important than rank. Loyalty is more important than wealth. And what the people who truly know you think, is more important than your status in the eyes of strangers.

The severity and intensity of this disorder comes from the NPD individual's desperate pursuit to gain a sense of self. He consciously understands none of this, yet his inner need to feel worthwhile causes him to manipulate people in order to maintain an endless supply of attention, control, status, money, power, or recognition.

Scandal or no scandal, I believe that our friendship was always destined to have been momentary—a collision of two vain young girls who intersected at the zenith of their beauty and the nadir of their intelligence, and who had blatantly used each other to acquire status and turn men's heads. That's all it had ever been, really, and that was perfect. That's all it had ever needed to be. I'd found deeper and richer female friendships later on in life

Besides, they'll all know soon enough, won't they? That I'm your mistress?" He snorted, hitting the bed with one arm as he sprawled. She raised a delicate eyebrow. "That is what you want, isn't it?" "I can't have what I want." "Can't you?" Her voice was light, nearly careless. "But you're the Duke of Wakefield, one of the most powerful men in England.

Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.

Não se deve esperar da cultura de massas e, menos ainda, da sua versão capitalista de indústria cultural, o que ela não quer dar: lições de liberdade social e estímulos para a cons­trução de um mundo que não esteja atrelado ao dinheiro e ao status.