Economic Status Quotes

#1. Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#2. I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

Craig Venter

#3. Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

Michael N. Castle

#4. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.

Dave Barry

#5. Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer.

Edwin Hodge

#6. I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

Albert Einstein

#7. The Code of Ethics for Nurses states that "the nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems

Beth Black

#8. No matter what age, race, or economic status we hold, death touches us all at one time or another.

Gail McHugh

#9. Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

Stephen H. Wolinsky

#10. To fulfill that mission, my teachers made sure they "knew" us. They knew our parents, our economic status, where we worshipped, what our homes were like, and how we were treated in the family.

Bell Hooks

#11. I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo."
"Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

Carrie Brownstein

#13. Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

F. Sionil Jose

#14. All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

Al Sharpton

#15. Somewhere in the heavens, she pictured her mother and father rejoicing, happy she and Michael had found their way back to one another.

Susan Lower

#16. If Black people had simply accepted a status of economic and political inferiority, the mob murders would probably have subsided. But because vast numbers of ex-slaves refused to discard their dreams of progress, more than ten thousand lynchings occurred during the three decades following the war.

Angela Y. Davis

#17. Hamish shrugged. It's all pretty cool and impressive ... if you never saw fucking Jurassic Park.

Matthew Reilly

#18. That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

Paul Sarbanes

#19. She also had a French accent, which hundreds of years of animosity had trained nice young Englishwomen to suspect as evil.

Gail Carriger

#20. No one ever asks "Why are you married?" even though the question is just as valid as "Why are you single?" After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love--fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance.

Sara Eckel

#21. A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

Ian Fleming

#22. Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

Bob Hartley

#23. I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.

Gerhard Richter

#24. If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.

Andy Townsend

#25. The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

William Weld

#26. What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?

Upton Sinclair

#27. If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

Franklin P. Adams

#28. I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Vikram Seth

#29. There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity - are frankly better cities to live in - than if we settle for the status quo.

Alex Steffen

#30. Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Kirsten Dunst

#31. I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin

#32. When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.

Nancy Atherton

#33. I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

Luis A. Ferre

#34. Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.

Erma Bombeck

#35. The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Donald Sadoway

#36. Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

James Fallows

#37. Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with economic position or status in life.

Brigitte Gabriel

#38. The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

Dan Quayle