A Quote by Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

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Charles de Gaulle
French - Leader
November 22, 1890 - November 9, 1970

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

Steve Coppell

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

P. J. O'Rourke

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

Michelle Dean

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

Gustave Le Bon

My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.

Bibi Bourelly

Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or "in" group.

Wendell Berry

Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

Charles Spurgeon

The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

Richard Engel

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

C. Wright Mills

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Margaret Mead

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

Lord Acton

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

Ryan Leaf

Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.

Jim Nabors

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