Quotes About Hierarchy

The false game is to give legitimacy to the notion that there is a hierarchy of importance among human beings.

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

Unfortunately, a certain type of Islam ghettoizes itself and is incompatible with our society. And it amazes me that some within the Catholic hierarchy act as if they do not understand.

According to the historian John LeDonne, "The existence of a national network of families and client systems made a mockery of the rigid hierarchy established by legislative texts in a constant search for administrative order and 'regularity.' It explained why the Russian government, more than any other, was a government of men and not of laws."28

Fakat gerçekte birçok birey yüksek statü elde etme ÅŸans? uÄŸruna düÅŸük statü sahibi olma riskini alarak, daha hiyerarÅŸik bir toplumu seçebilir.

Los arzobispos y obispos serían víctimas del desorden, o lo propiciarían como siempre?

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Joe Hardy to Frank Hardy: "Age before beauty

When we see a disciplined society, there is often a social hierarchy behind it. This hierarchy, which determines who can eat or mate first, is ultimately rooted in violence.

Priority of access to food is an important function of dominance. Since most dominance interactions and virtually all agonistic episodes [conflicts] between adult females and males occur in feeding contexts, I find much less meaning in dominance occurring in the non-feeding context. Moreover, there is no difference."26

Yet at the same time humans are inherently irreverent. It was Saint Bonaventura, a thirteenth-century theologian, who said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind." We love to make fun of the higher-ups. We're always ready to bring them down. And the powerful know this all too well. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," as Shakespeare wrote.

Even those who believe that humans are more egalitarian than chimpanzees will have to admit that our societies could not possibly function without an acknowledged order.

Aristotle's scala naturae, which runs from God, the angels, and humans at the top, downward to other mammals, birds, fish, insects, and mollusks at the bottom.

There is in fact no data demonstrating that men are more hierarchical than women. The only difference one study reported is that when people are put together in same-gender groups, men settle on a rank order more quickly than women. Women do eventually always form one, however.

We develop a plan and put a hierarchy in place to manage its execution, which allows us to lay a railroad track across the country or build a huge cathedral that takes generations to complete.

Position in the male hierarchy is only one factor in the mating game. The other one is female preference.

in traditional China the frequency of eating out was a fairly good indication of a person's rank in society.

Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.

Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Climbing that ladder of social hierarchy is an illusion that deludes any sense of happiness or truth.

those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

Hierarchy can work, except when those in leadership positions hold power over others—when their decisions benefit the minority and oppress the majority.