Hierarchy Quotes · Page 5

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

— Olivier Messiaen

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

— Jurgen Klinsmann

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

— Carl William Brown

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

— Steve Jobs

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

— Gloria Steinem

“I abandoned you, but at least I abandoned you at the top of the hierarchy of needs.”

— Fredrik Backman

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“However, today there is less hierarchy in the world due to technology.”

— Erik Qualman

In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and…

— Jessie Penn-Lewis

Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with…

— Robert Bly

“The typical clergy/laity system practiced among most churches is detrimental to believers. In this system only a professional class of people teaches…

— Henry Hon

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the…

— Zick Rubin

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

There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day…

— Peter James

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set…

— Jordan Peterson

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine…

— David Levithan

Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed…

— Jane Rule

“Revenge has probably been the most regular and prominent cause of fighting cited in anthropological accounts of pre-state societies. Violence was activated…

— Azar Gat

I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes…

— Joan Hackett

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

It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all…

— Sharon Gannon

Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…

— Alberto Manguel

Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist…

— Richard Lewontin

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

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

— Harold Leavitt

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

— Laura Prepon

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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

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

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Bauvard

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

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

— Barney Frank

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

— John Sculley