#status

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#desire #down #face #go #hard

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. ↗

— Paul Getty

#outstanding #status #suppose #symbols #were

Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#government #rebellion #status-quo #war #dreams

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#misconceptions #status-quo #intelligence

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#status-anxiety #life

A person can't help their birth. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#broad #broad range #cult #did #england

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country. ↗

— Howard Dean

#country #going #helps #liberals #quo

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#express #for the people #now #path #people