Hierarchy Quotes

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The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs… — Michele Bachmann
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may… — Annie Besant
Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that… — Julie Burchill
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't… — William S. Burroughs
I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses… — James Caan
I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an… — James Cameron
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. — Tommy Chong
I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something. — Jon Stewart
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. — Ignatius Loyola
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a… — Dennis Kucinich
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates
In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. — Karl Marx
It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought… — Lucy Grealy
Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If]… — Harry Belafonte

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