Hierarchy Quotes · Page 3

Success cannot be achieved by reconfirming the words of the hierarchy

— Anonymous

I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts.

— Seth Numrich

I didn't leave the 49ers, I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.

— Jim Harbaugh

Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

— Michael Marmot

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

— Robert Bly

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

— Bill Gates

“Money should come from hard work and study, not marriage to emperors...”

— E.I. Thompson

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy:…

— Anais Nin

It is a British legacy that we have such a strict hierarchy that we can't even write a letter to our PM.

— Arvind Kejriwal

You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.

— W. Edwards Deming

Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy…

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Murray Rothbard

“There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can…

— Steven Pressfield

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order…

— Annie Besant

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as…

— Julie Burchill

“In the hierarchy of moral development, as defined by Lawrence Kohlberg, the lowest level is “following rules only to avoid punishment.” The…

— Jerry L. Wyckoff

Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the…

— Michael Parenti

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…

— Michelle Alexander

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it…

— Jasper Johns

Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they…

— John Carroll

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some…

— Gloria Steinem

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture…

— Benjamin Jealous

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure…

— Raoul Vaneigem

People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to…

— Lierre Keith

“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the…

— Lierre Keith

All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of…

— Herman Melville

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

— Jeff Bezos

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

— Bill Mollison

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception…

— Bertrand Russell

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

— William P. Leahy

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.

— Douglas Coupland

I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else.

— Zohran Mamdani

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

— Radhika Apte

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

— Josef Pieper

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

— Steve McQueen

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

— Andy Hargreaves

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

— Le Corbusier