Hierarchy Quote by Mary Douglas Download Open image “Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.” — Mary Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hierarchy Present day
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth. — Harold Leavitt Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt Copy Share Image
The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.” — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
