Quotes About Hierarchy

The royal family don't mean nothing.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

Much of the skill in doing science resides in knowing where in the hierarchy you are looking – and, as a consequence, what is relevant and what is not.

According to the segmentation, there is a hierarchy of internet users, including inactives, spectators (people who watch and read online content), joiners (people who join and visit social media), collectors (people who add tags to webpages and use RSS feeds), critics (people who post ratings and comments online), and creators (people who create and publish online content).

define. In the United Kingdom, the term is employed in different senses. As the historian David Cannadine has argued, it can be used to denote social attitudes ("us" versus "them"), groupings in society based on occupation (upper, middle, and working), and hierarchy

feature of British society, yet it is difficult to define. In the United Kingdom, the term is employed in different senses. As the historian David Cannadine has argued, it can be used to denote social attitudes ("us" versus "them"), groupings in society based on occupation (upper, middle, and working), and hierarchy (in effect, status but not necessarily inherited, but rather earned or acquired, status).10 These distinctions are useful in making sense of how

the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

hiérarchie des genres et, à l'intérieur de ceux-ci, la légitimité relative des styles et des auteurs est une dimension fondamentale de l'espace des possibles. Bien qu'elle soit à chaque moment un enjeu de luttes, elle se présente comme un donné avec lequel on doit compter, fût-ce pour s'y opposer et le transformer.

In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black Americans, have consistently occupied lower rungs in the American social hierarchy.

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

The sergeant is the Army.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

The essential principle of Mormonism is not polygamy at all, but the ambition of an ecclesiastical hierarchy to wield sovereignty; to rule the souls and lives of its subjects with absolute authority, unrestrained by any civil power.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." The protective emphasis is not a law of nature; it comes from the stories we tell about nature.

The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but

So, naturalists observe, a flea hath smaller fleas that on him prey; and these have smaller still to bite 'em; and so proceed ad infinitum.

When are they going to stop calling me General?" "When are they going to stop calling me Princess?" Han & Leia

Affluence is always relative, depending on where you are on the food chain.

Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s).

Before maps the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable. And later when it became necessary, geography became biology in order to construct a hierarchy in which to place the people who lived in their inaccessibility and