The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders'… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't see me as a funny character because I don't usually get to play them. I'm usually cast… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have… — Paul King Jewett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
