“The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.”— André Bazin
“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”— Chanakya
“A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.”— Bernard Cornwell
“I think there's a certain amount of mystique, of being a quarterback in the NFL. It's like being a rock star.”— Boomer Esiason
“The argument of this book is that symmetrical conflict—violence between people who are socially near to one another—is not the result of status inconsistency but of status ambiguity.”— Roger V. Gould
“Much of what looks like principled conflict is in fact status conflict in disguise.”— Roger V. Gould