Hierarchy Quotes

232 Hierarchy quotes by 201 unique authors

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved… — Dennis Ritchie
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real… — Vivienne Westwood
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge… — Noam Chomsky
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone… — Anais Nin
... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. — Megan Whalen Turner
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — Jose Saramago
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you… — William P. Young
Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be'… — William P. Young
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The… — Bruce Chatwin
For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who… — David Levithan
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence… — Alejo Carpentier
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number… — Eileen Wilks
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds… — Alain de Botton
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had… — Raoul Vaneigem
No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will… — Dejan Stojanovic
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when… — John Cleese
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
O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy. — John Keats
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin

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