Quotes About Hierarchy

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

There's more politics in the police department than the Catholic Church,

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

The police department is a vast organization, and a detective is only an organization man.

A child domain always contains the complete domain name of parent

I have found it shocking how often communication across hierarchical and functional boundaries is faulty.

Personalization is especially dangerous when it occurs across formal hierarchical or status boundaries, because even in small steps like eating and drinking together, we are temporarily putting ourselves on an equal footing and can ask one another questions or say things to one another that in the Level One context might be considered offensive and disrespectful.

We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.

Contrary to the popular belief that educators across the world have typically been agents for progressive racial change, the weight of the evidence suggests that most educational systems and most educators operate to maintain racial hierarchy rather than to challenge it.

Trabajaba en un Juzgado que había sabido funcionar bien, pero que ahora estaba en manos de un boludo. Y un boludo de la peor especie: un boludo con ansias de rápidos ascensos.

losing our boss that way had left a bitter taste, because it appeared to confirm our belief that a certain level of congenital stupidity, such as the kind he displayed like a flag, could augur a meteoric ascent in the juristic hierarchy.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

he responds to prejudice by cultivating a prejudice of his own against those whom he feels are even lower in the American hierarchy than he is:

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

Monkey in the tree,Lion on the ground.Monkey kept on signifyingBut he didn't come down.

As with the maid, so with her mistress.

The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Primus inter pares [First among equals].

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get out and it is hierarchical. As a result they have a lot of bullying. On the other hand if you mix ages and academic ability this is less of a problem.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Historically, Vince McMahon's company has always been where the Hulk Hogans get the push and the Paul Orndorffs and Jake Roberts does the pushing.