Quotes about Status
So take a step toward calm, and relieve people from needing to broadcast their whereabouts and status. Everyone's status should be implicit: I'm trying to do my job, please respect my time and attention.
- Jason Fried
All they wanted now was what she herself wanted only a few short hours ago: to be bowed to when they caught certain people's eyes; to be invited to one more dull house; to be put on the Rector's Executive Committees, and pour tea at the Consuless's "afternoons".
- Edith Wharton
Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;
- Edith Wharton
If you want Jesus, you must be willing to accept the honor that goes with the relationship. Your royal status—ascribed to you, not achieved—has been unveiled.
- Edward Welch
Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:14—15). Here we see Jesus as an astute psychologist, who recognizes and exposes things that we only now have names for: status seeking, false motives, creation of persona, cultivating a self-image, and denial.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
- Peter Drucker
Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
- David Ogilvy
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
- Frank Herbert
It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle.
- Dorothy Sayers
Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
- GK Chesterton