Quotes About Hierarchy

The suits are usually ordered Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks.

Now come to the front of the line where you belong.

Rockefeller always sat in the middle of the backseat.

The feudal system was the most perfect social system in history. It even had a safety valve, to release any pressure of energy in it. An exceptional, ambitious, and gifted boy might get his master's permission to learn to read and write, and enter The Church. Church discipline was strict, but The Church represented the spiritual world, and in it, all men were equal. Any priest might become the Pope. A serf's son did become a Pope.

In the implicit hierarchy of values reflected in the Bible, principles are higher than laws and give justification for them.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The

Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade. Good! said the Baron, sitting in his hall, But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all.

No man's cub can run with the people of the jungle, howled Shere Khan. Give

The Viceroy possessed no name – nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alphabet after them.

Not), in my view, is all hierarchy or inequality inherently negative. Inequalities or differences in ability and experience, provided they are not reified or assigned on the basis of biological category, can usefully complement one another in relationships, and can also foster mutual learning.

Observing the behavior of individual fowl in a henhouse, we note that birds lower in rank are pecked by, and give way to, birds of higher rank. In an ideal case, there exists a linear order of rank with a top hen who pecks all the others. Those in the middle ranks peck those below them but respect all the hens above them. At the bottom there is a drudge who has to take it from everyone. (Adolf Remane, Vertebrates and Their Ways)

Putting both your hands in your pockets was against the rules. So was 'running in the corridors'. However, fagging – acting as an older boy's unpaid servant – and beating were still permitted. Corporal punishment could be administered by the housemaster or even by the boy named as Head of House.

The moment one begins thinking about morality in terms of well-being, it becomes remarkably easy to discern a moral hierarchy across human societies.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

This means that if boys and girls grew up on a deserted island with no organised society or parents to guide them, girls would still cuddle, touch, make friends and play with dolls, while boys would compete mentally and physically with each other and form groups with a clear hierarchy.

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor?

I'm not sir, I'm Corporal Tunny.' 'Sorry, Corporal Tunny.' 'Now look. I don't want you here and you don't want to be here—' 'I want to be here,' said Lederlingen. 'You do?' 'Volunteered.' A trace of pride in his voice. 'Vol … un … teered?' Tunny wrestled with the word as if it belonged to a foreign language. 'So they do exist.

Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.

Aquí todo el mundo al nacer tiene una determinada condición social. Están los plebeyos, que se ocupan de ir a la guerra, trabajar la tierra y realizar todos los trabajos manuales. Están los burgueses, que se ocupan de comerciar y de las tareas intelectuales. Está la nobleza, que son los dueños de la tierra y mandan sobre los demás. Y luego, claro, está la realiza... que no recuerdo para qué sirve