Social Ladder Quotes

#1. When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

Colin Powell

#2. As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm

#3. For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And ooh that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess cooked.

Amor Towles

#4. The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

Anita Roddick

#5. We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

Michael Pollan

#6. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

Jim McKay

#8. And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

Harry Chapin

#9. Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Paulo Coelho

#10. I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings, Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had.

Khaled Hosseini

#11. The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both ... undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Maimonides

#12. In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#13. What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Hugh Prather

#14. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

Stephen Reid

#16. Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Alexandre Dumas

#17. The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.

Edith Wharton

#18. We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

Tim Pawlenty

#19. Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

Jentezen Franklin

#20. Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.

Zygmunt Bauman