World Power Status

Famous quotes containing the words world, power and/or status:

“The world is
not with us enough.
O taste and see”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces ... trivialities. But here they won’t tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are ... those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)