Quotes About Social Hierarchy

#1. I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Richard Linklater

#2. Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.

Kavita Kane

#3. Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

Elyse Draper

#4. Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Robert Vaughan

#5. For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing ... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

Peter Schjeldahl

#6. Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy
that of the family
it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.

Zick Rubin

#7. Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

Yann Martel

#8. Chromatacia ... society ... ruled by a colortocracy ... social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

Jasper Fforde

#9. 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.

Paul Graham

#10. Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

Andrew Pettegree

#11. I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

John Cleese

#12. Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

Chellis Glendinning

#13. 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.

Frans De Waal

#14. I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

Todd Phillips

#15. Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

John Keay

#16. I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

David Bowie

#17. Aggression is about competing. Competing for the male, for the female, competing for the person most fit for breeding. Competing for resources such as food and shelter. Competing for power, because without hierarchy there can't be social order. In other words, aggression occurs when it's profitable.

Patricia Cornwell

#18. They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.

Stacy Schiff

#19. Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

Howard Stringer

#20. There's no quantifying someone else's problems as big or small. Although to one person, it may seem slight...there's no way to tell how greatly that same thing may be hurting someone else inside.

Hotaru Odagiri

#21. He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

Nikolai Gogol

#22. Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

Samuel Johnson

#23. Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

Tom Araya

#24. I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

Trent Reznor

#25. Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

Lawren Harris

#26. With the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

David Baldacci

#27. We as human being do dream & do expect a lot for what we are not entitled but there comes a phase when we get what we have never expected or dreamt of ... So, Accept every little thing that life offers cause might be this is what we deserve ...

Anonymous

#28. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

Karl Marx

#29. But grace has no leash. It's untamed, unbound, and runs wild and free.

Preston Sprinkle

#30. SSRIs augment social dominance behaviors, elevating an animal's status in the hierarchy. So they may well help women get along, and even get ahead, in the workplace, but at what cost?

Julie Holland

#31. We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Mark Twain

#32. Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

Andrea Dworkin

#33. The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#34. Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

Frans De Waal

#35. I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

Gerard Butler

#36. The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

John Mortimer

#37. There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

Terence McKenna

#38. We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

Harold Leavitt