Hierarchy Quote by Mary Douglas

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

— William P. Leahy

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

“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

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

— Harold Leavitt

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

— Mary Douglas

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

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

— Douglas Hofstadter

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

— Edward Abbey

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

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

“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

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

— Barbara Ehrenreich