Societal Hierarchy Quotes

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

There must be in all [societies and governments] a supreme, irresistable, absolute, uncontrolled authority.

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Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

I think one of the main differences between being an English actor and being an American actor is that we have things like the class system in England.I'm middle class. But I've got what some people might consider to be a working-class accent, so you've got those sorts of elements in this country to consider, which, in America, exist, but not necessarily in the same way.

Chile is still at the whim of powerful, traditional elites who sit as a higher societal authority than the elected government.

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

In the larger life of society, the people are made to submit to the orders of those who were originally meant to serve them—the government and its agents.