Quotes About Hierarchy

Instead of worrying about hypothetical slippages awaiting egalitarian believers, like sliding into secular feminism, theological liberalism, or homosexuality, they would do better to deal with brutal violations of their "family values" that are actually happening today within their hierarchy-driven allegedly Christian homes.

on chess] He had learned the moves, back in Vidin, from Levitzky the tailor, who called it "the Russian game." Thus, the old man pointed out, the weak were sacrificed. The castles, fortresses, were obvious and basic; the bishops moved obliquely; the knights—an officer class—sought power in devious ways; the queen, second-in-command, was pure aggression; and the king, heart of it all, a helpless target, dependent totally on his forces for survival.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Nobody liked Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher. For one thing, he had too many titles.

that pecking order. The dogs are taught

Prison is like high school with knives.

Each suba contained a dozen or so sarkars, each of them led by a faujdar, usually a military officer.

Rule Punjab and the rest of India as a superior race, dismissing any notion of equality between rulers and subjects

Thus the Gurus were all from the 'high' Khatri caste of traders and administrators but within that caste from middle-level clans or sub-castes.

Nicholson never brooked the faintest show of insolence towards an officer of the ruling race.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

There are four varnas, with the former 'Untouchables' constituting a fifth (and lowest) strata. Into these varnas fit the 3,000 and more jatis, each challenging those, in the same region, that are ranked above it, and being in turn challenged by those below.

Henceforward, no revolution will be worth the name if it does not at the very least imply the radical elimination of all hierarchy.

Religious beliefs concealed humans from themselves, a Bastille walling them up in a pyramidal world with God at the summit and the king just below. Alas,

The most complex capability of the human brain—what I would regard as its cutting edge—is our emotional intelligence. Sitting uneasily at the top of our brain's complex and interconnected hierarchy is our ability to perceive and respond appropriately to emotion, to interact in social situations, to have a moral sense, to get the joke, and to respond emotionally to art and music, among other high-level functions.

More importantly, modern dogs simply don't behave like modern wolves. Popular dog "experts" like Cesar Millan may tell you that a good dog owner needs to play the role of the alpha wolf, the dominant pack leader. But the fact is that dogs don't live in hierarchically organized packs. Indeed it's doubtful that most wolves live this way.

Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

If we are allowed to do experiments on monkeys because we are superior to them in a certain way, then someone who is superior to me is allowed to do experiments on me.

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.