Quotes About Hierarchy

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

The customs officials never ask for gifts but they expect them. There is a fairly precise scale of how much to give at different levels. If you are too generous with someone lower down the ranks of bureaucrats it will often become known, and those higher up will be unhappy. Not only will they expect more themselves, they will be legitimately disturbed that someone is interfering with norms and protocols. It is not for reckless Jaddites to disturb an orderly system.

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.

The whole society is a slave hierarchy. Everybody curries favor with the echelon above, and keeps his eye on the echelon below to make sure he isn't being undercut. We have something not too unlike that, ourselves. Any organizational society is, in some ways, like a slave society.

She had seen Moreover only once and that was from a distance. The aristocrat had sniffed and Moreover had turned his big head and stared at her, awe and admiration in his eyes. And then he had tucked his head and run away. He knew his place.

Hierarchy and discipline gave shape to the world;that was what he had always believed.Life was made easy by adherence toa rigid structure.But maybe that only really worked when you were at the top of the ladder,when you were doing well.The further down the rungs you went,the more of a victim of circumstances you became and the less it mattered whether or not you were in control.

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.

The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.

One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.