Hierarchy Quotes

You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

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.

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 of power.

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

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 of the future.

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

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

Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.