#status

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#conferred #conflict #cure #disease #every

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #cherish #citizens #death #groups

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#disclose #encouraged #example #hiv #lead

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#duty #event #happening #i #i think

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants. ↗

— Elmer Rice

#high #men #men and women #professional #reduced

Josh turns to me. “I can’t believe she’s writing these things.” “Not she,” I say. “Me.” “Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It’s crazy!” “Exactly,” I say. “I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me. ↗

— Jay Asher

#status-updates #internet

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#actions #attainment #country #depend #inhabitants

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise