Prestige Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

  George Ryan

  People, Drug, Majority

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• I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.

  William Howard Taft

  Heart, Thinking, Decision

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• If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Yellow, People, Black

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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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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• The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

  Henri Bergson

  Country, Taken, Inspiration

  Henri Bergson's acceptance speech (in the form of a letter) for the Nobel Prize in literature at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1928.

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• If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

  Ted Turner

  Important, News, Crisis

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Spiritual, Eye

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.

  Albert J. Dunlap

  Running, Jobs, Names

  "CEOs — An Endangered Species?". www.theglobalist.com. March 27, 2001.

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• When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Winning, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

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• ...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog.

  Jean Vanier

  Dog, Taken, Compassion

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.16, Paulist Press

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Men, Challenges

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Empowering, Bed

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• Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Satisfaction, Steps, Improvement

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

  Juanita Moore

  Oscars, Fine

  "'Imitation of Life' Actress Juanita Moore Dies" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 1, 2014.

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• All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

  Christopher Atkins

  Play, Issues, People

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• About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, Position Of Power, Population

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• The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

  Jimmy Carter

  United States, Territory, Terrorism

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.759, Simon and Schuster

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• Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Egalitarianism, People, Hollywood

  "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.

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• What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

  Raymond Chandler

  Taken, Writing, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.278, Vintage

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• The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

  Brendan Myers

  Philosophical, Matter, Spirit

  Brendan Myers (2013). “The Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy: From the Iron Age to the 21st Century”, p.17, John Hunt Publishing

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