Quotes About Status

I was what some foolish persons are pleased to call, and others, more foolish, are pleased to be called - an aristocrat.

What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor?

Why give them a proper burning?" Rulf caught the lad by the arm. "Because if we beat beggars here, we're no better than beggars. If we beat great men, we're greater still.

Aquí todo el mundo al nacer tiene una determinada condición social. Están los plebeyos, que se ocupan de ir a la guerra, trabajar la tierra y realizar todos los trabajos manuales. Están los burgueses, que se ocupan de comerciar y de las tareas intelectuales. Está la nobleza, que son los dueños de la tierra y mandan sobre los demás. Y luego, claro, está la realiza... que no recuerdo para qué sirve

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.

Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out

Popular prejudice always dies slowly, especially among those individuals most anxious about their own deteriorating economic situation and unstable social status.

Angst is for the Middle Class" - Marcus in Rough Canvas

Materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

When the results came back and were all calculated out, Tim was struck by the results: materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

When you have a society with huge gaps in income and status, Richard told me, it creates the sense that "some people seem supremely important, and others seem of no importance at all." This doesn't affect only people at the bottom. In a highly unequal society, everyone has to think about their status a lot. Am I maintaining my position? Who's threatening me? How far can I fall?

But humans do have a choice. We can—as I learned later—find practical ways to dismantle hierarchies and create a more equal place, where everybody feels they have a measure of respect and status. Or we can build up hierarchies and ramp up the humiliation—as we are doing today.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

If you're unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don't blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

That's life when you're on the D-list.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

Antiques and Oriental rugs tell people that my mother may be a dog breeder who dropped out of Bryn Mawr, but she's got power—because she's got money.