Quotes About Hierarchy

I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.

But John Marshal, having four sons and a fruitful wife, considered the youngest of his sons of far less value than a strong castle.

In the twenty-first century, the new autocracies in Russia and China have much in common with that of the tsars, run by tiny, opaque cliques, amassing vast wealth, while linked together through hierarchical client–patron relationships, all at the mercy of the whims of the ruler. In

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

seagull meetings' – according to one executive, because Ryan 'swoops in, shits on everyone from a height and swoops away again'.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which was the order in which people optimally satisfied different types of desires (food-safety-love-status-enlightenment).

In the military, we have always had a healthy disrespect for democracy.

To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

Patriarchy has no gender.

one of the many uses of theory in academic locations is in the production of an intellectual class hierarchy where the only work deemed truly theoretical is work that is highly abstract, jargonistic, difficult to read, and containing obscure references...any theory that cannot be shared in everyday conversation cannot be used to educate the public

To be true to patriarchy we are all taught that we must keep men's secrets.

Since women remain the primary caretakers of children, the facts confirm the reality that given a hierarchal system in a culture of domination which empowers females (like the parent-child relationship) all too often they use coercive force to maintain dominance. In a culture of domination everyone is socialized to see violence as an acceptable means of social control.

Working within the conventional corporate academic world where the primary goals of institutions is to sell education and produce a professional managerial class schooled in the art of obedience to authority and accepting of dominator-based hierarchy, I often felt as though I was in the dysfunctional family of my childhood where I was often in the outsider position and scapegoated, viewed as both mad and yet a threat.

If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power and domination, and thus all forms of battery are linked.

sure. I know I hated it when a resident disregarded a

Yes, sir, Hicks said. He was a small young man, very officious, who would never contradict a superior. If Morris claimed the clouds were made of cheese Hicks would just stand to attention, twitch his nose, and swear blind he could smell Cheddar.

How anyone could endure three or four hours of chanting monks and ranting priests was beyond my understanding, just as it was beyond my understanding to know why bishops needed thrones. They would be demanding crowns next.

A rat doesn't demand supper from a wolf

Supremacy among mortals is always oppositional to God, but among people who carry the name of Christ, it is blasphemous.

Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.

Not everyone gets a reservation in the hot restaurant. You must pay your dues. Like it or not there is a pecking order.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.