Status Quotes

In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: t...

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change...

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effectin...

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the statu...

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry ...

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status an...

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the...

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And ...

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answe...

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bo...

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always...

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long l...

These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long l...

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in ...