Quotes About Hierarchy

Virtue is to be rewarded—with power. God therefore wants a hierarchical society in which there are moral authorities who should be obeyed in each domain: individual power, global power, financial power, social power.

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

The more ties you wear, the higher rank you are.

Koliko ?e biti potrebno revolucija, koliko ratova da bismo se vratili onoj izuzetno reakcionarnoj istini da je 'strogost' prvi uslov svake hijerarhije, i da je stega ustvari kalup oblika.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

On the Tier One Teams I studied, the typical pecking order put the coach at the top, the talent on the bottom, and a water-carrying captain in the middle who served as an independent mediator between them. In this new order, where power and popularity went hand in hand, the middle manager's role had been squeezed out. Unless the captain was the superstar, the captain was a bystander.

Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau doubted it, complaining that the rise of commerce expanded hierarchies of wealth that both morally enervated the rich and fed disorder, even if they left the poor better off.

Like the Chinese, the Japanese see international politics as hierarchical because their domestic politics are.

The father-mother-son that makes up the basic family unit, at least as the Family has described it for centuries now, represents a power structure, a structure of strong powers, mediating powers, and subordinate powers, as well as paths for power developments and power restrictions.

Now you know who bows down to whom. - Emma

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The only throne that kid's gonna sit on is the kind you flush.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.

I want to tell you about the dark recesses of the restaurant underbelly — a subculture whose centuries-old militaristic hierarchy and ethos of 'rum, buggery and the lash' make for a mix of unwavering order and nerve-shattering chaos — because I find it all quite comfortable