Quotes About Hierarchy

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.

Grid systems in graphic design

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the true creative spirit.

Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

So the hierarchy of goals is roughly: satisfy hunger; eat; cook; read cookbook; get more light. This is called a root cause analysis: asking "Why?" until the ultimate, fundamental cause of the activity is reached.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Each emotional system is hierarchically arranged throughout much of the brain, interacting with more evolved cognitive structures in the higher reaches, and specific physiological and motor outputs at lower levels.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what's going on?

and in the hierarchy of breakups he was going to take the high road—no phone breakup, but a face-to-face, which ranked much higher than a text message or e-mail.

Multics gave living proof that a grown-up operating system was possible—that sophisticated memory management, a hierarchical file system, careful attention to security, and all the rest could be integrated into a single, coherent whole.

Grounded in the neo-platonic dualistic separation of the sacred and secular worlds, such an understanding has enabled the spread of a race-based hierarchical/patriarchal system that supported the enslavement not just of other human beings but of other Christians, the dehumanization of women and persons of color,

Designating "(Fill in the blank) First" as the golden rule of international relations provides an all-purpose justification for tyrants to do as they like.

It was like a great chain of fear, I thought. Zeus at the top and my father just behind. Then Zeus' siblings and children, then my uncles, and on down through all the ranks of river-gods and brine-lords and Furies and Winds and Graces, until it came to the bottom where we sat, nymphs and mortals both, each eyeing the other.

Definition implies subordination.

Goldman Sachs is famous for rigidly refusing to hire someone and promote them at the same time. For

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

No one enjoys being equal.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.