Quotes About Hierarchy

Nurse Ratched,

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

Right, wrong—those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

The further down the Catholic Church hierarchy one looks, the more brave and principled behavior one finds.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.