Hierarchy Quotes

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.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

Part of my role at T-Mobile is the ability to just be myself, because I'm 58 years old and I've done very well, and I don't need to fight my way up the hierarchy with my suit and hair anymore.

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

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."

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships.

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

In business, everyone has a different weight.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards.

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.

To recreate a new aristocracy is the eternal task of every revolutionary project.

Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time