Quotes About Status

Los altos quieren quedarse donde están; los medianos quieren arrebatarle su puesto a los altos; los bajos quieren abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en la que todos sean iguales.

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Antiguamente, las diferencias de clase no sólo habían sido inevitables, sino deseables. La desigualdad era el precio de la civilización.

Prestige, the breath of life, is itself nebulous.

Baju adalah sesuatu yang berkuasa. Dengan berpakaian gelandangan, sangat sulit, untuk tidak merasakan bahwa kamu sedang mengalami penurunan status.

It's queer, the power of these rich men.

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus

A 'change of heart' is in fact the alibi of people who do not wish to endanger the status quo.

Sono persone che si danno arie da borghesi. Io non mi sognerei mai di far studiare mio figlio da avvocato

Lady Barbara drove herself in a phaeton, with a tiger perched up behind;

of the establishment, and was only

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get all women out of the homes and into the workforce. And again and again, they taught that the only fulfilling lifestyle was to be in the workforce reporting to a boss instead of being in the home reporting to a husband.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.

Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment.

The Chinese want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have 'developing nation' status and are out there as one of the biggest borrowers on the planet from the World Bank while simultaneously trying to play the part of a grown up on the world stage.

People view you differently when you're a world champion.

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

I will never be below the title.

The reality is, if a woman is married to man with a title, she gets a title. I think everybody should have the same opportunities and the same privileges and the same honours.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.