Hierarchy Quotes

232 Hierarchy quotes by 201 unique authors

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its… — Gerda Lerner
If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it.… — Herb Kelleher
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. — Jeff Bezos
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me… — Jasper Johns
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are… — Ken Robinson
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… — Ken Robinson
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea… — Joseph Needham
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded… — Kenneth Burke
If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is,… — Simon Sinek
The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant — Justin Cronin
Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others. — Douglas Coupland
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to… — Laurence J. Peter
The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest,… — Ken Wilber
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy… — Murray Rothbard
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above… — Ely Culbertson
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of… — Rocco Buttiglione
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its… — James Joseph Sylvester
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required… — Dee Hock
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or… — Dennis McKenna
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society. — Manning Marable
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and… — Jeremy Rifkin
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to… — Florence King
In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming… — D. H. Lawrence

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