Hierarchy Quotes - Page 3

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.