#status

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#again #challenged #era #feats #game

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there. ↗

— Will Wright

#between #community #cool #economy #good

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#american #american dream #anyone #because #being

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

— Steven Gerrard

#far #football #given #hero #legend

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#assume #blue #core #incorrect #lie

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#culture #find #i #i do #like

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#children #drift #extent #fail #flooded