societal status Quotes

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.