Quotes About Hierarchy

Generally you pick the unoccupied workstation that's closest to the door. That way, whoever came in earliest sits closest, whoever came in latest is way in the back, for the rest of the day it's obvious at a glance who's on the ball in this office and who is—as they whisper to each other in the bathrooms—having problems.

Yur heaved a sigh, then continued in a more moderate tone: "Never mind. I see it now. It's some kind of Purpose thing. Above my pay grade. You should have just told me." He drew himself up and saluted. "What are my orders, sir?

It became sort of obvious that one of them was the boss. Tall guy, a little older than the others, in a Manu jersey." "Manu jersey?" "Manu Ginobili," Peter said, almost angry that Zula did not understand the reference. "He plays for the Spurs.

class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

because class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

To the Equity Lords, the idea had been worth billions; to Hackworth, another week's paycheck. That was the difference between the classes, right there.

Boys, he said, only want to know two things: who is in charge, and what are the rules.

before that three-hundred-year run when there was a way for people to agree on facts—we had kings and warlords and rigid social hierarchy. During it, a lot of brainpower got unlocked and things got a lot better materially. A lot better. Now we're back in a situation where the people who have the power and the money can get what they want by dictating what the mass of people ought to believe.

Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.

Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others?

henchmen came to kiss his ring, and where his

He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity.

rigid structures of a hierarchical order can disintegrate with astounding rapidity.

Rather than being a cause of the late twentieth-century crisis, the Internet appears to have been a consequence of the breakdown of hierarchical power.

government had degenerated into what has been called an 'administrative' or 'managerial' state, hierarchical and bureaucratic in its mode of operation, dedicated to generating ever more complicated regulation that had precisely the opposite effect of that intended.

Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39

For most of history, life has been hierarchical. A few have enjoyed the privileges that come from monopolizing violence. Everyone else has dug.

The child is father to the man" is a Romantic riddle that turns worldly hierarchy on its head. It means that the child is in some sense the superior of the man; the child is wiser than the man. Ironically, the eventual broad acceptance of this truth did not so much liberate the Victorian bourgeois as it haunted them and gave them a bad conscience. They sensed that the poets were right.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.

A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to his need to self-destruct. A Bluesman doesn't take to having a boss unless he's on a chain gang (for the chain gang boss ranks below only a mean old woman and a sweet young thing in the hierarchy of the Blues Muse, followed closely by bad liquor, a dead dog, and the Man).

Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to. Especially if they resent both.

The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

Alpha Males may lead the armies of the world, but it's the Betas who actually get the shit blowed up.