Prestige Quotes - Page 2

• A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, India, Association

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Garden, Views

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

  Alain de Botton

  Tools, Literature, Littles

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• I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

  Tom Coburn

  Jobs, Believe, Differences

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

  Edward Norton

  Cousin, Littles, Popularity

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• How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Men, Tolls

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• Science is in low regard.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Lows, Regard

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• I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money and possessions to, and second, to give. Jesus says, "It is more blessed to give than to receive". As long as I still have something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish the control, power, and prestige that come with wealth.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Believe, Blessed

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Sea

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Play, People, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Science, Unique, Awards

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• So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Jobs, Thinking, Bonus

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

  Barry Goldwater

  Respect, Flags, Earth

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• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

  Ben Bova

  Military, Moon, Space

  Ben Bova (1983). “The High Road”, Pocket

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• No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Winning, Overcoming, Had Enough

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• Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

  John Ensign

  Arrogant, Achieve, Persons

  "Farewell to the Senate". www.congress.gov. May 2, 2011.

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• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

  James S. Coleman

  Teenager, Eye, Data

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• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  Socrates

  Car, Soul, Reputation

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

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• There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  New York, Cities, Government

  The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.

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• The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

  Stefan Collini

  Enlightenment, Moral, Newton

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

  C. Wright Mills

  Respect, Shadow, Cash

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Ideas, Suggestions, Groups

  Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

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• The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

  Albert Camus

  Fighting, History, Cases

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

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