Quotes About Hierarchy

After people are clothed and fed, then they think about sex

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

What kind of a world was it where in order to be on top you had to push others under — as if you were pushing heads down underwater — and hold them there until they drowned, and then you could be on top.

At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.

I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.

El asunto es que la gente no se vea obligada a recorrer una cadena de mando —indicó uno de los técnicos de Intel, Ted Hoff—. Si uno necesita hablar con un gerente en concreto, va y habla con él.

no "natural or religious reason [for] the distinction of men into kings and subjects.

The problem with people like Antoinette, people who have only partly comprehended that race is no longer the primary defining factor of American life, is that they, her and her kind, unknowingly keep watch over the masters' wealth; and that the power of that wealth maintains all the ignorance of centuries of classism, racism, and the hierarchy that ignorance demands.

The sciences form a hierarchy. "Physics rests on mathematics, chemistry on physics, biology on chemistry, and, in principle, the social sciences on biology," wrote evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers.

Whiteness is not really a color at all, but a set of power relations.

Working your way up the system doesn't mean you beat the system. It strengthens it. It's what the system depends on.

Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.

Idiocy flows uphill towards power.

Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Everyone that is not a noble," he lamented, "is a slave.

Elephants operate on a steadfast principle that all other lifeforms must give way to them, and as far as they were concerned, foreign tourists at a sit down dinner around a swimming pool were no different than a troop of baboons at a swimming hole.

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

Sin jerarquías, y cuando todas las decisiones están sometidas a constantes revisiones y replanteamientos, la organización se convierte en una maquinaria lenta y pesada, y la puesta en marcha de las ideas adquiere la forma de una idea solo provisional.

Who says organization, says oligarchy." This was Michels's "iron law.

It is one of the enduring ironies of history that established systems of hierarchy rarely find it necessary to rely on sensible defenses as an essential means of maintaining power.

And this, then, is the job of the searchers and the dreamers: to reach deeper and deeper into the dream. Peeling away one layer after another. Until we realize that the voice speaking our dreams comes from within us and from without at the same time.11 Until we see at last that the story is true. Not necessarily because it happened in a particular place at a particular time, but because it is within us. It always was. It issues from us. It is ours. The whole ancient hierarchy of meanings.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

In the Jewish communities of Europe, learned but poor Jews were much, much more highly respected than rich but unlearned ones.

All of Judaism's philosophy, ethics, ethos, learning, education, and hierarchy of values are saturated with a sense of, and heightened sensitivity to, rakhmones. God is often called the God of Mercy and Compassion: Adonai El Rakhum Ve-Khanum. The writings of the prophets are permeated with appeals for rakhmones, a divine attribute. (So, too, are the words of Jesus and the books of the New Testament.)