C. S. Lewis Quotes

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

A servant cannot be greater than his master.