Quotes About Hierarchy

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Power always works from the corner office.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

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

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

In reality, a higher level of war always trumps a lower.

Accuracy. Going through the OODA loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) faster than your enemies remains important, but accuracy of Observation and Orientation may be more important than speed.5 Because Fourth Generation forces are usually "flat," networked organizations, state-armed forces must "flatten" their own hierarchical structures in order to remain competitive.

The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

Small to greater matters must give way.

Giving out the titles reminds me of Louis XIV: 'Every time I give someone a title, I make a hundred people angry and one person ungrateful.

No matter how good you think you are or how clever... How many fancy new friends you make on the telly... The reality of footballing life is this: The chairman is the boss, then comes the directors... Then the secretary, then the fans, then the players... And then finally, last of all... bottom of the heap, the lowest of the low... comes the one, who in the end, we can all do without... The fucking manager.

The term refers to cascading disruptions that can pass between trophic levels—that is, between different categories of interrelated organisms in the hierarchy of energy transfer within an ecosystem.

Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness.

Slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families," he wrote. "The order of civilization is reversed here.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.