Quotes About Hierarchy

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Many men but one Master.

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he's in a good mood.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

Prison is like high school with knives.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me

No one beneath you can offend you. No one your equal would.