80 Hierarchy Quotes
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Famous Hierarchy Quotes
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. — Murray Bookchin
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down. — American Proverbs
And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support. — Sun Tzu
Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. — Harold S. Geneen
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. — Harold Geneen
Those above are going down, those below are going up. — American Proverbs
Climb the ladder to success escalator style — The Notorious B.I.G.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. — Samuel Johnson
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. — Ed McBain
Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position. — Douglas Murray Mcgregor
Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position. — Douglas McGregor
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. — Murray Rothbard
Short Hierarchy Quotes
- Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. — American Proverbs
- Corruption starts at the top. — Turkish Proverbs
- Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. — Sylvester Stallone
- Men are like fish; the great ones devour the small. — Hungarian Proverbs
- I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am. — Tucker Carlson
- Frog chooses boss. — Thai Proverbs
- Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
- In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt
- Hierarchy works well in a stable environment. — Mary Douglas
- Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies — Jean Ziegler
Social Hierarchy Quotes
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. — Andrea Dworkin
Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow. — Wassily Kandinsky
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. — Richard Linklater
Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction. — Chellis Glendinning
We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth. — Harold Leavitt
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. — John Cleese
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct. — Robert Vaughan
I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is it the lower you are in the hierarchy the more likely you are to smoke. So we need to address the causes of the causes. — Michael Marmot
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. — Peter Schjeldahl
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More Hierarchy Quotes
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential, have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy. — Graham Hancock
Ns are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression. — Robert M. Sapolsky
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline. — Benito Mussolini
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. — Mary Douglas
The educated man precedes the farmer. But when the rice begins to run short, it’s the farmer who comes first. — Vietnamese Proverbs
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction. — Murray Bookchin
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery. — Peter Kropotkin
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males. — Florence King
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. — Margaret Mead
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. — Joseph Story
If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need. — Herb Kelleher
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people. — Robert Anton Wilson
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching. — Ashley Montagu
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. — Andrea Dworkin
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson
Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet. — Philip Yancey
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. — Hans Kung
The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power. — Stormie Omartian
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression. — Audre Lorde
The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one — Max Weber
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government — Rufus King
In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization. — John Sculley
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life. — Gordon Allport
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement. — Edward T. Hall
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else. — Richard Rohr
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win. — Steve Jobs
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility. — Benito Mussolini
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