Quotes about Status

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,

and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

the economic sphere is like a thermometer that reveals both the temperature of the theological relationship between God and Israel (angle A), and also the extent to which Israel was conforming to the social shape required of them in consistency with their status as God's redeemed people (angle B).

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

But you just keep wagging your pricey manicure and that horse-choking diamond bracelet at me. That helps make it all seem so much more right.

And consider this: the angel appeared to Mary first, not to her husband-to-be, Joseph. 'She had no status or honor apart from him,' yet Gabriel came to Mary—further proof of how much God values women.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.