Quotes About Hierarchy

So, naturalists observe, a fleaHath smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em;And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet, in his kind,Is bit by him that comes behind.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Busca las cosas trascendentales, y sólo las hallarás en la H. Los hijos, con hache; el honor, la honra, con hache; Dios (Hacedor Supremo), con hache; hombre, con hache; la materialización de Cristo (La Hostia), con hache; la hidalguía, con hache; el habilitado, que es el que paga, con hache...

Como dice Julián Marías, el ser humano necesita una «jerarquía de verdades» que cree el subsuelo en el que se asientan las ideas, creencias y opiniones fundadas en la autoridad, las «opiniones contrastadas» que vamos recibiendo y esa sabiduría especial y honda que constituye la experiencia de la vida.

There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent.

Here's how to use Five Whys analysis to build an adaptive organization: consistently make a proportional investment at each of the five levels of the hierarchy. In other words, the investment should be smaller when the symptom is minor and larger when the symptom is more painful.

Who died and put you in charge?' Moon Shadow demanded, his tail-tip twitching in annoyance. 'Shaded Moss, actually,' Tall Shadow replied.

BLOODCLAN LEADER SCOURGE—small black tom with one white paw DEPUTY BONE—massive black-and-white tom

Deputy? What was the point of being deputy? "I want to be the leader!" Crookedpaw

Only Skystar looked unconvinced. "So the rule on boundaries comes last now?" Gray Wing looked at the SkyClan leader. "Perhaps it should have come last all along.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

If any man is rich and powerful, he comes under that law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

In many cases the office of captain was more or less automatically voted to the person who had been most active in raising the company; to some extent this was true also in the choice of colonels.

This was all news to us lower ranks who, while we'd theoretically known Seawoll had parents, had always assumed that he'd been assembled in a factory somewhere outside Wakefield.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous in revealing your own ignorance, is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.

In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous than revealing your own ignorance is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.

The core of critical race theory (CRT) lies in the propositions that racism is ordinary and permanent; that whiteness and property coincide; that history is told only by dominant groups, and requires a counternarrative; and that color-blindness is a myth, and that the notion of equality of rights is itself a reflection of color hierarchy.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.