We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy…

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

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

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

— Jens Voigt

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

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

— Bill Gates

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson

“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.”

— Carl William Brown

I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you…

— Tony Hale

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom…

— Ken Robinson