status quotes

The economic status of women generally depends on that of men generally, and†the economic status of women individually depends upon that of men individually, those men to whom they are related.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.

- StephenJay Gould
  Ever Since Darwin.

Every lunch time I went to see how my inheritance was proceeding. Sometimes the deaths column brought good news. Sometimes the births column brought bad. The advent of twin sons to the Duke was a terrible blow. Fortunatelyanepidemic ofdiphtheria restored thestatus quo almost immediately.

- Robert Hamer
  Kind Hearts and Coronets (with  John Dighton).

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to deaththose citizens or groups who question that status.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Some Thoughts On Writing In Restaurants'.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

- LaurenceJ Peter
  In the San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan.

In the modern city, it takes on the status of a cathedral, our Chartres, our Notre Dame, our marble museum of the soul.

- Richard Rodriguez
  On San Francisco's new Museum of Modern Art. In the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, 27 Feb.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

-Jean-Paul Sartre
  Preface to Franz Fanon Les Damne  s de la terre (The Wretched of theEarth,1967, translated by Constance Farrington). Tsitsi Dangarembga uses this sentence to supply both epigraph and title of her1988 novel Nervous Conditions.

To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.

- (Archibald) Noel Skelton
  In The Spectator,19 May.

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho! Let Einstein be!'restored the status quo.

- SirJ(ohn) C(ollings) Squire
  'In Continuation of Pope on Newton'.

Any society, so long as it is, or feels itselfto be, a working society, tends to invest in itself: a military society tends to become more military, a bureaucratic society more bureaucratic, a commercial society more commercial, as thestatus and profits of waroroffice orcommerceare enhanced by success, and institutions are framed to forward it. Therefore, when such a society is hit by a general crisis, it finds itself partly paralyzed by the structural weight of increased social investment. The dominant military or official or commercial classes cannot easily change their orientation: and their social dominance, and the institutions through which it is exercised, prevent other classes from securing power or changing policy.

-Glanton
  The Rise of Christian Europe.