Quotes About Hierarchy

The fact is that antihierarchical, egalitarian sentiments were on the rise in political movements, whose tendencies were, therefore, towards collectivism and centralization, with a concomitant decline in the freedoms of business organizations, private associations, families, and individuals. We

People rarely like the humanitarian plans of their social superiors.

Psychologist Susan Fiske observes, 'Attention is directed up the hierarchy. Secretaries know more about their bosses than vice versa; graduate students know more about their advisors than vice versa.' Fiske explains this happens because, like our fellow primates, 'people pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power.

As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth.5

The radical feminists I have worked with do not limit their critique to patriarchy. To emphasize the radical potential of radical feminism: Beyond the sex/gender system, radical feminism's understanding of the way in which patriarchy normalizes hierarchy leads not just to a focus on men's domination of women but also to a deeper critique of power systems more generally.

Performance management systems that promote individualistic behaviors seem to be one of the primary causes of sparse, disconnected networks. Hierarchy, too, often has a marked impact on who has access to whom.

He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy—something Americans do particularly well.

What's bureaucracy?" I asked, finally getting a word in edgewise. "Red tape . . . the system, " Aahz informed me. "The organization to get things done that keeps things from getting done.

Fisher Ames observed of Hamilton that the common people don't want leaders "whom they see elevated by nature and education so far above their heads.

For Hamilton, his encounters with the two obdurate generals strengthened his preference for strict hierarchy and centralized command as the only way to accomplish things—a view that was to find its political equivalent in his preference for concentrated federal power instead of authority dispersed among the states.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.'" Alice

Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.

So before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.

a bishop should not be condemned except with seventy-two witnesses… a cardinal priest should not be condemned except with forty-four witnesses, a cardinal deacon of the city of Rome without thirty-six witnesses, a subdeacon, acolyte, exorcist, lector, or doorkeeper except with seven witnesses.

Knowledge is a hierarchy; it consists of integrations, each level making the next possible and in due course necessary. Thinking, we can say, consists of integrating integrations.

There is one fact that can be established: the only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing … is the establishment of hierarchical societies, consisting of masters and slaves, and where one part of the population is made to work for the other part.5

Sentence first; verdict afterwards. -Queen of Hearts

any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.