Hierarchical Power Quotes

#1. The world's thoughts are games that are played. They aren't true, but they are agreements of the ways to think and act. The presently dominant thoughts are all built for the needs of maintaining hierarchical power.

Hannu

#2. Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As hackers we can learn these systems, manipulate these systems, and shut down these systems if we need to.

Jeremy Hammond

#3. All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

Jacob Braude

#4. And finally she had sobbed the only truth there was into her mother's shoulder, the only explanation: the Tucks were her friends. She had done it because - in spite of everything, she loved them.

Natalie Babbitt

#5. When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Peter Senge

#6. As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Sylvia Kristel

#7. I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

Michael Patrick Hearn

#8. If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power and domination, and thus all forms of battery are linked.

Bell Hooks

#9. Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.

Shoshana Zuboff

#10. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.

Jonathan Pryce

#11. I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.

Thomas Perez

#13. Nay, had I pow'r, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.

William Shakespeare

#14. High-level creative exchange depends on both hierarchical and fluid power relationships.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#15. If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

Margaret Thatcher

#16. You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

Brian Tracy