Quotes About Hierarchy

Peers, by contrast, must in the main be convinced. Their attention must be carefully reciprocated. To be surrounded by peers is to exist in a state of equality, and to manifest the give-and-take necessary to maintain that equality. It is therefore good to be in the middle of a hierarchy.

Dominance hierarchies are older than trees

Who's that? That's the King. Who's he? The Duke. Who's she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

After the aristocracy of birth had come the aristocracy of money.

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic

A society without an aristocracy, without an elite minority, is not a society.

From the moment of independence from Britain, the United States was intentionally designed with a racial hierarchy dominated by the white race.

Orders mostly became "institutional vacuities

but kittypets cant be warriors! they dont have warrior blood! " -greystripe

Yes, Darkstripe," Firepaw mewed, dipping his head submissively. He turned and muttered "Dirtstripe!" under his breath

Whitepaw mewed. Leopardstar bit back

She'd worried at the beginning when she first met them that there were too many patrones. But within weeks she was sure that there was really one boss, and that the other three were working for her.

But I also think that the young especially ought to learn how to live with the array of conditions associated with excellence: That what is finest often denies itself to easy access; that to live admiringly with things above oneself is a source of dignity; that genuine hierarchies confer respect on all their members; that even what is greatest, or especially what is greatest, offers itself for critical judgment.

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news.

Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally.

Paul draws the conclusion as to what this new reality of being in the Anointed looks like and it is in radical contradistinction to the Roman Empire: "You are no longer Jew or Greek, no longer slave or freeborn, no longer 'male and female'" (Gal 3:28a). The Roman Empire is emphatically hierarchical from the emperor on down. Everyone has their place. In the counter-world/kingdom in the Anointed, there is no hierarchy; all are one.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

It's always been my long-held belief that eventually insects will take over the world.

Ostentation is roughly the divide between old and new money.