Quotes About Hierarchy

According to the Revelation the differences between one degree and another are vaster in the next world than in this: 'Behold how We have favoured some of them above others; and verily the Hereafter is greater in degrees and greater in hierarchic precedences.' And the Prophet said: "The people of Paradise will behold the high place that is above them even as they now behold the bright planet on the eastern or western horizon.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects

However much some people may resent the fact, in nature inequality and not equality seems to be the rule.

Inequality, in other words, is precisely the principle upon which their social life is based and is made possible.

she was well aware that the further up the career hierarchy she went, the fewer female faces she saw.

Just as the ambition of Roman slaves was usually to gain freedom for themselves, not to abolish slavery as an institution, so the ambitions of the poor were not radically to reconfigure the social order but to find a place for themselves nearer the top of the hierarchy of wealth.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

Only than the villains of the Hierarchy will turn their face to the man hooked by millennia of self treason and will realize that they are on the top of that pyramid due to the one they, the elites, have humiliated and brutalized elites who became what they are due to this MAN! They will realize that they are nothing without this man and only then they will know that they are no longer elites, but people!

Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders...are lower than garbage. However...those who do not care for and support their fellows...are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha

A lion does not take orders from sheep.

Yeah, Atatsuki, don't call him by that name. It's rude! Kuran-sama is handsome, well-behaved, and a perfect honor student. Calling him "gang leader" would ruin his image!! At least call him "SUPREME GANG LEADER!!

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting.

Y luego la entropía entra en escena, por supuesto. Se pierde el paraíso. Babel y el diluvio traen confusión y desorden; lo que era una elegante jerarquía se convierte en un caos de tribus y naciones.

And then entropy sets to work, as it will. Paradise is lost; Babel and the Flood bring confusion and disorder; what was an elegant hierarchy becomes a mess of tribes and nations.

The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is no hierarchy of orders of layers or planes, there is dimensionality of every fact & facticity of every dimension.

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

It is the privilege of nobility to condescend.

Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.

It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense

Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are next; the sovereign is the lightest.

Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.