Quotes About Hierarchy

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

puts the cart before the horse.

Sin importar si las oficinas de un superjefe están físicamente alejadas o no, la falta de jerarquía, las largas horas de trabajo y la búsqueda y fe compartidas en la visión del superjefe contribuyen a fortalecer una cultura de grupo.

Dogs have Masters. Cats have staff.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

Notwithstanding the supposed egalitarian ethos of some hunter-gatherer societies, humans are a hierarchical social species. We care greatly about where we stand in comparison to some relevant reference group.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.