Quotes about Hierarchy
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
— Albert Camus
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Higher stages always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
— CS Lewis
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
— John Henry Newman
Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.
— Erica Jong
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
— Pope Gregory The Great
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.
— Joseph Heller
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
— Ambrose of Milan
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
— Dean Frazer
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.
— John Adams
If you are not royalty, He is not King.
— Beth Moore