Quotes About Hierarchy

This practice works among wolves, since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive. But among sentient races selection of that kind usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest.

The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order

who was curled into a tight ball. And then past his master, Silas. Maxie felt uncomfortable going past Silas, because Silas was Top Dog and Maxie was Not Allowed in Front.

There could be nothing more wrong than the Maslowian model of hierarchy of needs. … Please do not ever think that only after meeting your physiological needs and other needs can you be thinking about your spiritual needs or your enlightenment.

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

I've always had jobs with hierarchies - wherever I worked, like McDonald's, or cleaning toilets. It's always been hard.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

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

What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

I think it's false to believe that anything good is going to start from the top.

A lot of companies have teams, but they are not really independent. They still have to get stuff approved by the boss. You have to change how and where decisions are made. If the hierarchy makes the decision, it will be based on politics.

As an NFL rookie, I had to buy meals for older guys. I appreciate hierarchy. I understand teamwork.

To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.

I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is a director, and above that is a producer, and above that is a writer. But on a television show or film, the whole call sheet thing and being No. 1 on a call sheet, people look to you and almost expect you to exercise this power for good or bad.

The higher the station of an individual within any organization, the greater the tendency to hew to the company line