Quotes About Hierarchy

Above a patron—though I condescend   Sometimes to call a minister my friend.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

He who comes first, eats first.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

Mosquitos remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

maid, then chambermaid, then housemaid, then chief housemaid

The central argument is not that higher education is all wrong, but that it is only half right. Our predominant pedagogical system — rational, hierarchical, individualistic, and well-ordered — often ignores aspects of the self relating to emotion, mischievous subversion, social engagement, and creative disorder.

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

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

I've always run by the hierarchy of "If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something."

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Humans have these notions of power, control, hierarchy, greed, anger, envy, lust, etc. It really is quite bizarre where these tendencies lead us. We have human billionaires on planet earth who choose to gather more and more wealth at the expense of everyone else. But why? Once all of a person's human needs have been supplied, to unimaginable levels of luxury, what is the point of having more? To have power and control over other humans?

A lowly clerk expressing an opinion doesn't get people's notice at a company. But when the CEO expresses that opinion, everyone jumps to attention. The higher up you go, the more your suggestions become orders.

has been founded on a good beating.

Parallel inheritance hierarchies is really a special case of shotgun surgery. In this case, every time you make a subclass of one class, you also have to make a subclass of another.