Quotes About Hierarchy

Talents at the bottom, only sociopaths at the top.

All kings will be reincarnated as lions and employees as flocks of sheep.

The wife of a king is well known as the queen. But the queen's husband is mostly scorned to the title of prince.

This makes the rather obvious logical mistake analogous to that of a soldier who, receiving orders through the mail, concludes that the letter carrier is his commanding officer. Those who transmit, collect and distribute the message are not in the same league as those who write it in the first place.

How's Her Royal Bitchiness?" "Alive." "Pity.

But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These orders, he whispered, come from the Commander in Chief.

Hierarchy was easily maintained when the majority felt there was someone below them. "How many," the author asked, "even of the better sort," would choose to be "Slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and Tyrannical Rule over all below them?

Class status was still based on family name in Pennsylvania, for the top tier was dominated by the Penn, Pemberton, and Logan families—the proprietors and Quaker elites.

We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.

The shape of power is always the same; it is the shape of a tree.

Meetings were for wasting time, created by and for high-tone people to justify their existence.

Caste system is the most brilliantly administered scam in history.

It is an unfortunate truth of our society that whatever heights a man might scale, his caste is never cast off; it remains an inseparable part of his identity. His caste always remains a cause for scorn or contempt. Only the type of humiliation changes.

Bureaucrats -- monkeys who hear no evil and see no evil -- are first in line for promotion.

Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners.

At the core of all societies, I will show, is the social suite: (1) The capacity to have and recognize individual identity (2) Love for partners and offspring (3) Friendship (4) Social networks (5) Cooperation (6) Preference for one's own group (that is, "in-group bias") (7) Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism) (8) Social learning and teaching

Anyone who has worked in a hierarchical organisation must have noticed that bravery is rarely on display when a superior enters the room.

hierarchical cultures of business and the state, where status determines access to information, and criticism is met with punishment. Nearly all of us work in hierarchies. Nearly all of us bite our tongues when we should speak freely. Yet few of the classic or modern texts on freedom of speech discuss freedom of speech at work, even though, as the crash of 2008 showed, self-censorship in the workplace can be as great a threat to national security as foreign enemies are.

There was, though, a sharp divide between classical and pop in the upper echelons; although the pop releases were subsidising the classical recordings, the staff who created them were treated like other ranks by the top brass. The chairman, Sir Joseph Lockwood, must take a lot of credit for bringing down this antiquated hierarchy. To put things in context, two years before he joined EMI, the board had decided there was 'no future' in the long-playing record.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.

Leveling is the barbarian's substitute for order.

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

The society of the future: slavery without masters.