Hierarchical Quotes

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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as… — J. G. Ballard
The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same. — George Orwell
The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots of us paying homage to… — Janet Holmes a Court
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey
We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more… — John Cleese
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines. — Ignatius Loyola
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary… — Noam Chomsky
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to… — Jane Smiley
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees… — Tomson Highway
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious… — Julius Evola
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been. — Martin Fleischmann
Group Material is itself collaborative, which is non-hierarchical and we don't use the corporate model which is along lines of expertise but we work together… — Julie Ault
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. — Scott Adams
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which… — Alan Watts
All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured,… — Theodore Levitt
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people… — Nawal El Saadawi
Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organizationâ€”a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks. — Don Tapscott
Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to… — Brad Feld
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. — Ted Nelson

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