Quotes about Hierarchy

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

There was no real up-and-down structure, but merely a figure at the top and then everyone else scrambling for his attention. It wasn't task-based so much as response-oriented—whatever captured the boss's attention focused everybody's attention.

This makes the rather obvious logical mistake analogous to that of a soldier who, receiving orders through the mail, concludes that the letter carrier is his commanding officer. Those who transmit, collect and distribute the message are not in the same league as those who write it in the first place.

God gave animals a lower rank, in the service of man.

the multiple angry assaults on the "traditional family" are the rotten fruit of Christians corrupting the beauty and strength of the "covenantal family" of the Bible into the hated "hierarchical family" of the stereotypes so loved by feminists and others. Still

There are striking examples of the same thing in our own day. For example, the multiple angry assaults on the "traditional family" are the rotten fruit of Christians corrupting the beauty and strength of the "covenantal family" of the Bible into the hated "hierarchical family" of the stereotypes so loved by feminists and others.

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

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

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”