Top 1200 Social Status Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.

Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social and family relations - and in the last 200 years, they have been disintegrating.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network.

There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there is not much in the way of a theory of sociolinguistics, of social uses of languages, as far as I am aware.

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

I only want to use my status as a comic actor to bring about a difference to society.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.

We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

At first, I didn't really use anything in the social network world. I was so anti-social network, which is kind of ironic. I actually first started on a chat room on my fan site.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

I believe strongly that social change isn't just about demonstrations in the street against the wrongs in society. There is also the path of the social innovator who creates new institutions and the path of the reformer who goes within an institution and makes incremental changes.

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.