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4. “Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.”
Orson Scott Card
Humiliation, Family, Society, Nation, Personal Pride, Social Hierarchy
7. “Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proclaiming, “All men are equal – all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas...” E.M. Forster Social Hierarchy, Class Struggle, Democratic Equality, Historical Change, Inequality, Progress
8. “It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.” E.M. Forster Power Dynamics, Historical Reflection, Timidity, Human Behavior, Social Hierarchy, Confidence Recovery
10. “It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike – in the second place, folks don’t like to have someone around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.” Harper Lee Conformity, Social Hierarchy, Communication, Education, Ignorance, Humility
12. “Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.” Albert Camus Power Dynamics, Social Hierarchy, Authority Reflection, Oppression, Slavery, Society
15. “So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.” Aristotle Gender Roles, Social Hierarchy, Governance Insight, Natural Order, Philosophical Thought
Social Hierarchy Quotes by Famous Authors
4. “Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.”
Orson Scott Card Humiliation, Family, Society, Nation, Personal Pride, Social Hierarchy
7. “Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proclaiming, “All men are equal – all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas...”
E.M. Forster Social Hierarchy, Class Struggle, Democratic Equality, Historical Change, Inequality, Progress
8. “It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.”
E.M. Forster Power Dynamics, Historical Reflection, Timidity, Human Behavior, Social Hierarchy, Confidence Recovery
10. “It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike – in the second place, folks don’t like to have someone around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”
Harper Lee Conformity, Social Hierarchy, Communication, Education, Ignorance, Humility
12. “Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.”
Albert Camus Power Dynamics, Social Hierarchy, Authority Reflection, Oppression, Slavery, Society
15. “So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.”
Aristotle Gender Roles, Social Hierarchy, Governance Insight, Natural Order, Philosophical Thought
