Quotes about Hierarchy

Metcalf, is that your foot I'm stepping on?' 'No, sir. It must be Lieutenant Scheisskopf's foot.' 'It isn't my foot,' said Lieutenant Scheisskopf. 'Then maybe it is my foot after all,' said Major Metcalf. 'Move it.' 'Yes, sir. You'll have to move your foot first, colonel. It's on top of mine.' 'Are you telling me to move my foot?' 'No, sir. Oh, no, sir.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.