Quotes About Hierarchy

All the children of the powerful were being groomed to be powerful

Whatever grace might 'trickle down' from the higher regions of a given society to the lower is no more essential than that which rises and converges from the opposite direction.

The pulayar are the lowest caste in Travancore, rarely owning their own property, even their huts belonging to the landlord; the sight of them is enough to pollute a Brahmin

Racial purity - the highest law.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Kalau tidak ada orang-orang rendahan, tentu tidak ada orang atasan.

Tak ada yang bisa bantah Sri Erlangga seorang pembangun besar. Satu yang pada waktunya akan Bapa Mahaguru katakan: hanya satu yang tidak pernah dibangunkannya kedudukan kaum brahmana...

Masak sama-sama orang segan-menyegani - Pak Komandan

Wanita budak paling baik hanya untuk pria budak.

Bootlickers rise easily and rapidly through the ladder in the corporate world.

Rarely is a fight continued when the chief has fallen.

The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.

In the dressing room, we know that Arsene Wenger is the boss.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand. We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech.

We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times.

When I say that democracy has no place in the university, I mean that the university is, or at any rate was and ought still to be, a hierarchical institution, as befits an elite enterprise. The hierarchy is based upon scholarly and scientific accomplishment. The accomplishment makes for authority.

Metcalf, is that your foot I'm stepping on?' 'No, sir. It must be Lieutenant Scheisskopf's foot.' 'It isn't my foot,' said Lieutenant Scheisskopf. 'Then maybe it is my foot after all,' said Major Metcalf. 'Move it.' 'Yes, sir. You'll have to move your foot first, colonel. It's on top of mine.' 'Are you telling me to move my foot?' 'No, sir. Oh, no, sir.

But the question made no sense to the bulk of the troops, who regarded instinctive obedience to orders and ready acceptance of subordination within a military hierarchy as infringements on the very liberty they were fighting for. They saw themselves as invincible, not because they were disciplined soldiers like the redcoats but because they were patriotic, liberty-loving men willing to risk their lives for their convictions.