Quotes about Status

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape.

I drive through the streets and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

Significance in life doesn't come from status, because you can always find somebody who's got more than you. It doesn't come from sex. It doesn't come from salary. It comes from serving.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.