Quotes About Hierarchy

Prussia," remarked Mirabeau, "is not a state with an army, but an army with a state.

It is a jungle where hierarchies of infinities tower like prehistoric beasts.

The sheep may become king, but the sheep will always remember the lion. Congolese Proverb

Tevekkül Allah'a! Köpe?in efendisi varsa kurdun da Tanr?'s? vard?r.

A pyramid signifies hierarchy, yet no hierarchy is evident in the Food Pyramid.

Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.

In paintings or illustrations, text (words) and images (resemblances) often appear together, but one is always subordinate to the other.

What is it they say about an organisation being like a tree full of monkeys? The ones at the top look down and see a lot of smiling faces, the ones at the bottom look up and see a bunch of arseholes?

To survive, Byzantine society and politics folded itself around the state.

By around 480, as he put it, 'now that the old degrees of official rank are swept away . . . the only token of nobility will henceforth be a knowledge of letters'; the official hierarchy had gone, only traditional Roman culture survived.

Le sexe est simplement un marqueur de la division sociale [hiérarchique de genre] ; il sert à reconnaître et identifier les dominants des dominé[e]s

Once upon a time the great mass of English people were unfree. They could not live where they chose, nor work for whom they pleased. Society in those feudal days was mainly divided into lords and peasants. The lords held the land from the king, and the peasants or villeins were looked upon as part of the soil, and had to cultivate it to support themselves and their masters.

They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.

To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.

Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.

THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE UNITED STATES LEONARD BEEGHLEY

Il potere è sempre altrove. Il potere non è nel consiglio comunale di Palermo, il potere non è nel Parlamento della Repubblica: il potere è altrove.

It is the system itself that, once set up, gives orders.

It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.

Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding of our social circles to filter the news we encounter. Amazon bestrides book publishing with its overwhelming hold on that market.

In order to really move toward what people really think of as some sort of Utopian post-racial society or somehow to really challenge the racial hierarchy, we're going to have to allow some fluidity.

Commoners had to prostrate themselves before high-ranking chiefs. All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production.

A horizontal arrow indicates that the attribute varies between less and more complex societies of that type.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.