Social Ladder Quotes

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“High school is hell; the further down the ladder you are, the more like Hell it becomes. For kids like Carrie, it's really like the ninth circle of Hell.”
― Stephen King

“I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Screw the social ladder. Choose to levitate.”
― Omar Cherif