Quotes About Hierarchy

They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.

to serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion, which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal, will tremble at the crowing of a cock.

In the Conservative view, you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Faith, family, and fitness - that's the order I try to keep things in.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Contra the prevailing belief, success isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.

A system with skin-in-the-game requirements holds together through the notion of a sacrifice in order to protect the collective or entities higher in the hierarchy that are required to survive.

Political parties are hierarchical, they are designed in a way to substitute someone's own decision making with a well-defined protocol.

With your pardon, sir," replied Dr. Clarke, a physician and a famous champion of the popular party, "whatever the heralds may pretend, a dead beggar must have precedence of a living queen. King Death confers high privileges.