Quotes About Status

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.

To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

Each one of us, of course, the Controller meditatively continued, goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking enormous.

The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth.