Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.