Quotes About Hierarchy

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy is key to a nonconfrontational relationship.

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.

Political life was defined by money. Having it, taking it and giving it were the principal concerns of the powerful. It was not just a matter of lavish expenditure on public shows or comfortable living in the innumerable houses that one man might possess; set amounts of capital were required for a man to become an equestrian – a knight – or a senator.

Like the Sun King, all of them turned their nation's printing presses and church pulpits into royalist propaganda machines. What was then "the mainstream media" routinely pointed to the monarch as an essential link in the Great Chain of Being, the center of a divinely preordained and fixed order. A king was more than just a political leader. Heaven had placed him on the throne not only to be obeyed, but to be loved and revered.

From the point of view of Plato—not to mention Socrates—this was a shocking downgrading of reason. But Bernard was only following Plato's hierarchy of knowledge as adopted and adapted by Saint Augustine. Just as reason is superior to opinion (doxa), so Saint Augustine taught that faith is superior to reason because it rests on the highest wisdom of all, the truth of God's revelation.9 Faith of this potent kind is more than belief.

Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

The hierarchies of this army become corrupted or go rotten, if instead of placing themselves completely at the service of Revolution, they place revolution in their service and degenerate. . . . The malice of the militia seems to be forever the same.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Like a long-haul jet, their building was divided into economy, business, and first.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

We can now suggest an answer to the questions asked above. If conservatism is based on Strict Father morality, conservatives have the general metaphors of the Moral Order in their conceptual systems, with at least a couple of clauses, namely, God above human beings; human beings above animals and the natural world; adults above children; men above women. The Moral Order hierarchy used to have all the bigoted clauses in it; now it has many open slots available for such clauses. Let

It is a meritocracy. It is hierarchical, and the hierarchy is moral. In this hierarchy, some people have authority over others and their authority is legitimate. Moreover

Here is the hierarchy: God above man; man above nature; adults above children; Western culture above non-Western culture; our country above other countries.

men above women, Christians above non-Christians, whites above nonwhites, straights above gays.

The hierarchy of moral values in Nurturant Parent morality can be expressed as: The Nurturance Group Moral Self-Interest The Strength Group This

Finally, there is the conservative view of the moral hierarchy. As we have seen, the rich and those who can take care of themselves are considered more moral than the poor and those who need help. But moral superiority on a wider scope is central to conservative thought.

In short, the moral hierarchy is an implicit part of the culture wars.