Power Hierarchy Quotes

#1. I'm a man without a country. Or I'm a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.

Ally Carter

#2. Aggression is about competing. Competing for the male, for the female, competing for the person most fit for breeding. Competing for resources such as food and shelter. Competing for power, because without hierarchy there can't be social order. In other words, aggression occurs when it's profitable.

Patricia Cornwell

#3. In business, everyone has a different weight.

Nabil N. Jamal

#4. The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#5. It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.

David Byrne

#6. There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

James Buchanan

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

Joe Abercrombie

#8. Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Mark Twain

#9. From what I see, there are only two types of pack members--the hierarchy who are power hungry and the peons who are power less. - Cody Forester, Wolfsbane Brew

Roxanne Smolen

#10. I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into ... if you heat yourself up.

Tricia Helfer

#11. The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

Doug Dawson

#12. It didn't matter whether a thing existed or not. What mattered was the trouble caused by those who believed in its existence.

John Connolly

#13. This is just a demonstration of their power. It is their power. They decide the winner. A game of merit won by birth. It keeps the hierarchy in place. It keeps us striving, but never conspiring. Yet

Pierce Brown

#14. Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

Elyse Draper

#15. The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire.

George MacDonald

#16. The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to successfully combine performance with reliability the first time around. That could shake things up a bit when it comes team hierarchy.

Michael Schumacher

#17. No, you're not, Marissa says. You were just the victim of the blatant misogynistic and ridiculous hierarchy that is high school in contemporary society. You have to take the power back.

Lauren Barnholdt

#18. I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

#19. The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.

Wendell Berry

#20. Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

John Burnside

#21. In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.

Jessie Penn-Lewis

#22. All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

Philip Pullman

#23. Luck marches with those who give their very best.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#24. Maybe it is not a coincidence that, even in heaven, under the perspective of the Bible, there is a hierarchy. After all, what better way to impose the "benefits" of accepting the power of a hierarchy in the human mind?

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#25. We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#26. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.

Terry Deary

#27. My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Jessica Alba

#28. All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Edward Abbey

#29. In battle, refusal or hesitation to follow orders can spell disaster. But at the same time, the rigid hierarchy and absolute power of officers slows down execution and stifles rapid adaptation by the soldiers closest to the fight.

Stanley McChrystal

#30. Destiny can never be denied. It takes time to unfold .

Osunsakin Adewale

#31. One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It's hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It's implicit.

Cliff James

#32. Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

Andrea Dworkin

#33. I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential, have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy.

Graham Hancock

#34. 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

#35. Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward

Erika Taylor

#36. The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.

Stormie O'martian

#37. 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.

Sonia Johnson

#38. Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Murray Rothbard

#39. And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#40. I am increasingly convinced that people who have power are not necessarily smarter than others. Beyond a certain level of intelligence and level in the hierarchy, everyone is smart. What differentiates people is their political skill and savvy.

Jeffrey Pfeffer