Power Hierarchy Quotes

If you oppress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you.

Government, as well as religion, has furnished its schisms, its persecutions, and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. It has its hierarchy of emperors, kings, princes, and nobles, as that has of popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and priests. In short, cannibals are not to be found in the wilds of America only, but are reveling on the blood of every living people.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.