Hierarchy Quotes · Page 6

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

— William Butler Yeats

“Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps”

— Karl Marx

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

— Sandra Bartky

I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.

— Olly Alexander

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

— Melissa Farley

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

— John Sculley

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

— Barney Frank

In countries like India or China, a Steve Jobs will never come around. The fundamentals aren't there - there's this feudal hierarchy.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The hierarchy is set out for me. The first priority is piano. I have to be 101 percent prepared. I find that…

— Stephen Hough

No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of…

— John Cleese

A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of…

— Carol Browner

I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is…

— Michael Marmot

If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about…

— Tom Felton

With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the…

— Anthony Mackie

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of…

— Gloria Steinem

In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a…

— Lawrence Weiner

I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence…

— Elias Chacour

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are…

— Elizabeth Thornton

I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put…

— Arthur Koestler

I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all…

— Anita Roddick

A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does…

— Jo Baer

The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely…

— Hermann Goring

“should enhance and align with the ones above it. In other words, your priorities will sit in a hierarchy from the top…

— David Allen

“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.”

— Bauvard

The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place.

— Tanya Saracho

I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre,…

— Jon Stewart

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

— Sylvia Poggioli

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the…

— Starhawk

The kudos and hierarchy of playing in the Premier League for a footballer is huge.

— Javier Mascherano

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

— Laura Prepon

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

— Harold Leavitt

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

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

— Warren Buffett

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

— Gautham Menon

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so…

— Anonymous

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes