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Quotes About Hierarchy

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
~ Christopher Paolini
Dad was in the United Auto Workers at work so seniority was real important in our house.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
The chair outranks the badge.
~ Christopher Pike
Scores climb with titles, from the bottom of the corporate ladder upward toward middle management. Middle managers stand out, with the highest EQ scores in the workforce. But up beyond middle management, there is a steep downward trend in EQ scores. For the titles of director and above, scores descend faster than a snowboarder on a black diamond. CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.
~ Travis Bradberry
At university (then, though still, I understand, today), things are the opposite of the ways of the normal world: it isn't the sons who hate the fathers, but the fathers who hate the sons.
~ Umberto Eco
The propaganda of this bunch is anti-Jew, anti-Russian, and to some extent anti-British. It is closely tied up with the Catholic hierarchy—the Papal Knights and the Papal Delegates and our millionaires who back them." "There you have it! Franco Spain, and the intrigues of the Nazis in South America—these are all parts of the same world conspiracy!
~ Upton Sinclair
Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first. Emil expressed his ideas
~ Upton Sinclair
Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first.
~ Upton Sinclair
Heat thus occupies a unique position in the hierarchy of energies: all other forms of energy can be completely converted to it, but its conversion into other forms can never be complete, as only a portion of the initial input ends up in the new form.
~ Vaclav Smil
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
~ Victor Hugo
Se dice que en toda manada de lobos hay un perro al que la loba mata, porque si lo deja vivir al crecer devoraría a los demás cachorros. Dad un rostro humano a este perro hijo de loba y tendréis el retrato de aquel hombre.
~ Victor Hugo
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
~ Victor Hugo
They just had to muddle along and live in the world presented to them, confused a lot of the time because nothing made sense, but certain of their subterranean place on the food chain.
~ Kristin Hannah
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
~ la bruyere jean de ii
The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.
~ Lalita Tademy
The big fish ate the little and
~ Catherine Gildiner
The big fish ate the little and that was how it worked. To me that
~ Catherine Gildiner
I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Doesn't sound like anyone cares about Rightful until they want to kick someone else out of the chair.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
traditional institutions on almost every level: hierarchy
~ Cathy N. Davidson
place those files into a subdirectory of the directory containing the source file, named doc-files.
~ Cay S. Horstmann
patterns. This sense of hierarchy and conformity was particularly strong during the militarist period of the 1930s. However, after Japan lost the war in 1945, the country became
~ Gillian Tett
Admiradores A admiração, mesmo a mais calorosa, tem sempre um subentendido de condescendência, isto é, a certeza de uma superioridade.
~ Giovanni Papini
he had done nothing wrong; there had always been others above him; he had never done anything but obey orders; he had never hurt a single human being.
~ Gitta Sereny