Hierarchy Quotes

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice.

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

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.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

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.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.

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.

Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.