Full Idea
The idea that the appearance of submission and obedience and rank are essential to order is at the heart of the conservative ideal.
Gist of Idea
Conservatives believe obedience and rank are essential to social order
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 2)
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.102
A Reaction
[He has just quoted Edmund Burke writing of Marie Antoinette] I once heard Richard Hare say that he thought social order would be best modelled on the army. A colleague once told me that obedience is a prime duty of a school teacher.