Prestige Quotes - Page 8

• The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

  Robert Payne

  Military, Oligarchy, Wealth

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.

  Albert Pike

  Christian, Stars, Lying

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.751, Simon and Schuster

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• The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Order, Essence

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.168, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Support, Inner Strength, Atheism

  "The Bible and the Schools". Book by William O. Douglas, 1966.

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• In Venezuela, which doesnt have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  Jobs, Moving, Home

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• What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Acquisition

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• War is the supreme form of prestige.

  Simone Weil

  War, Form, Supreme

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.25, Routledge

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• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Thinking, Russia

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• People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

  Wyndham Lewis

  People, Judgement, Overwhelmed

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• The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

  John McEnroe

  Wimbledon, Championship

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• The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Able, Reputation

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's an Ideas section or personal essay series or longform. Readers are hungry for it. It's like prestige TV, though; it's execution-dependent. You have to figure out the right advertiser or sponsor, and you have to deliver, you can't just feed the beast.

  Tim Carmody

  Writing, Kind, Hungry

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• The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Father, Home, Character

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• Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

  Robert D. Hare

  Predator, Social, Psychopath

  "'Corporate psychopaths' at large" by Lisa Desai, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Humor, Deep Thought

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• Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Political, Authority

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• Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and shook her head..."I believed," she confessed somberly, "I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was?" "I can't imagine." "I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life." Philip and Caroline

  Judith McNaught

  Laughing, Enjoy Life, Married

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• The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.'

  Rajneesh

  Money, Mind, Ifs

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• We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Motivation, Butterfly

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• Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.

  Brenda Jackson

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Fighting

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• Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Fashion, Past, Knowing Nothing

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• Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

  Anne Frank

  Beautiful, Lonely, Heart

  Anne Frank (1997). “The diary of a young girl”

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• ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Luxury, Soul

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• There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Mind

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