Hierarchy Quotes · Page 5

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

— Gautham Menon

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

— Warren Buffett

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

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

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds…

— Graham Hancock

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We…

— William Faulkner

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has…

— Robert Sapolsky

If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the…

— Susan Fiske

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas…

— John Stoltenberg

“But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of…

— Frank Herbert

One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and…

— George M. Whitesides

Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied…

— Terence McKenna

When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there…

— Marilynne Robinson

Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the…

— Richard Bach

As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an…

— Gerhard Richter

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection.…

— Simon Sinek

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that…

— Bill Moyers

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own…

— Edward T. Hall

I'd told Taker before the promo that I was gonna stick it to him and he told me to go for it.…

— Chris Jericho

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

— Erik Qualman

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

— Fredrik Backman

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

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

— Melissa Farley

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Javier Mascherano

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

— Starhawk

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

— Italo Calvino