Quotes About Hierarchy

El poder de los jefes reside en la tristeza de los disciplinados.

So where you've got one pope, they've got a whole bunch of 'em?

Which is why, from the Inca Empire to the Soviet Union, extractive societies have been prone to collapse. Power naturally flows to the top. We've established that. But where power flows to the top and stays there, without correction or recirculation, a society is likely to die a catastrophic death.

Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

Marriage, n. a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Hierarchy (or, more specifically, the fear it creates when not handled well) reduces psychological safety.

People sit in a circle, with the intention of de-emphasizing hierarchies and instead encouraging what's called "a leader in every chair."34 To create the mindfulness and focus conducive to an environment where everyone collaborates and contributes, meetings begin with a minute of silence.

In one study investigating employee experiences with speaking up, 85% of respondents reported at least one occasion when they felt unable to raise a concern with their bosses, even though they believed the issue was important.

when not handled well) reduces psychological safety. Research shows that lower-status team members generally feel less safe than higher-status members. Research also shows that we are constantly assessing our relative status, monitoring how we stack up against others, again mostly subconsciously. Further, those lower in the status hierarchy experience stress in the presence of those with higher status.

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.

all Crick knew was that when he got to the ground, the whole fucking world seemed to be eighteen-year-olds calling him Second-goddamned-Lieutenant.

Are we so hierarchical that we can't respect a creature that lives beneath our feet?

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Sunbae-hoobae seniority is a very tricky, weird kind of thing.

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

In Sudan, we have been targeted by western countries because we have rejected their hegemony on Sudan and turned their companies away that were only interested in oil.

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.

The kudos and hierarchy of playing in the Premier League for a footballer is huge.

I don't think the bottom beats the top very often in the Premier League, if ever.

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.