Alain de Botton Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Success, Fall

• The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

  Alain de Botton

  Desire, Stronger, Comfort

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.250, Vintage

• The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Want, Dignity

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

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