Quotes About Status

status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

the streets] enforce the ancient hierarchy that comes to us from the countryside: the superiority of the mounted man over the man on foot. But here [...] it is the man with four wheels who is forced to dismount and become part of the crowd

What pain and discomfort people endure to look important.

To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more negative attitudes towards the environment, are less likely to engage in positive environmental behaviors, and are more likely to use natural resources unsustainably

Uma casa que não tinha pelo menos dois ou três livros exibidos com orgulho nas paredes era uma casa pobre.

By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women's status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a defensive proof to aggressive competitors of womanhood or manhood. Since both value systems are reductive, neither reward is ever enough, and each quickly loses any relationship to real-life values.

they keep women consuming their advertisers products in pursuit of the total personal transformation in status that the consumer society offers men in the form of money.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. As long as women are asked to bring a self-denying mentality to the communal table, it will never be round, men and women seated together; but the same traditional hierarchical dais, with a folding table for women at the foot.

Of course, men don't age any better physically. They age better only in terms of social status. We misperceive in this way since our eyes are trained to see time as a flaw on women's faces where it is a mark of character on men's.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

Il sistema più efficace per rendere inoffensivi i poveri è insegnare loro a imitare i ricchi.»

He was going to marry a lady of good social standing

Há alturas e locais em que não ser ninguém é mais honroso do que ser alguém.

The first step towards believing passionately is fear. Fear of losing our identity, our life, our status or our beliefs. Fear is the gunpowder and hatred is the fuse. Dogma, the final ingredient, is only a lighted match.

solucionados el tema de la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes

Our lives are structured around power symbols: money, authority, title, beauty, security.

anywhere on it. A southern woman's social dignity is determined by the way she keeps her Caddy clean.

1857 Dred Scott decision, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not guaranteed rights as citizens and that slave status could not be outlawed by any state government.

Acting Up: The Atlanta Heiresses.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

Humans possess insatiable longings for wealth, status, and power, but are hungry, most of all, for love.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.