I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing…

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

— John Sculley

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

— Anonymous

All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't…

— James C. Collins

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

— Gary Hamel

“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to…

— Frank Herbert

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s…

— Cliff James

“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ”

— Joe Abercrombie

Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and…

— William P. Young

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have…

— Steve Jobs

The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called…

— Malcolm Godwin

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

— Jens Voigt

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the…

— Ashley Montagu

We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all…

— Wangechi Mutu