Quotes About Prestige

Love is not seen as something of great status. Power is left untouched by the hunger for power and knowledge is neglected.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

The devaluation of woman represents a necessary stage in the history of humanity, for it is not upon her positive value but upon man's weakness that her prestige is founded. In woman are incarnated the disturbing mysteries of nature, and man escapes her told when he frees himself from nature.

In "My Adventures in the Ozone Layer," he cast the scientific community as dominated by self-interest. "It's not difficult to understand some of the motivations behind the drive to regulate CFCs out of existence," he wrote. "For scientists: prestige, more grants for research, press conferences, and newspaper stories. Also the feeling that maybe they are saving the world for future generations."69 (As if saving the world would be a bad thing!)

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.

For instance, Thamus warns that the pupils of Theuth will develop an undeserved reputation for wisdom. He means to say that those who cultivate competence in the use of a new technology become an elite group that are granted undeserved authority and prestige by those who have no such competence.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

where curiosity could be assuaged, prestige maintained, and personal responsibility dissolved. With

The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the "power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of "an increasingly arcane hobby.

He heard of the generals Saddam had shot for lowering his prestige by losing battles and the generals Saddam had shot for rivalling his prestige by winning battles.

It is an indisputable fact that the more expensive something is, the better it is.

If we don't have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.

Isn't this the Eolian? I had heard that this is where pride pays silver and plays golden.

And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos—the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

I was famous from birth.

Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.