Rank Quotes

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?

When somebody say "Writer", I think about a person or people which have rank "Writer", when somebody ask me about president. I think about rank "president" - but in the end we understand thall people with this ranks are normal are like the people around the world poor or rich it doesn't matter!

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.