Hierarchy Quotes - Page 2

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy - but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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 them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

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 continuous democratic debate.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

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

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

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 who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice.