Quotes About Hierarchy

#1. 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.

Jon Stewart

#2. Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. If the derived class isn't going to adhere completely to the same interface contract defined by the base class, inheritance is not the right implementation technique. Consider containment or making a change further up the inheritance hierarchy.

Steve McConnell

#4. Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?

Joan Fontcuberta

#5. 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.

Tana French

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

Harold Leavitt

#7. 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.

Warren Farrell

#8. 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.

Terence McKenna

#9. 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.

Steve McConnell

#10. As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people on the front lines, and hence cause them to disregard the value in front-line ideas.

Dean M. Schroeder

#11. Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.

Kavita Kane

#12. 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.

Vijay Seshadri

#13. If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

Steve Jobs

#14. I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Richard Linklater

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

Laurence J. Peter

#16. Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Josef Pieper

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

Laura Prepon

#18. The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebration of the world.

William Barrett

#19. A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive - and nowhere else! - and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

John Green

#22. In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#23. The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.

Gabriel Chevallier

#24. In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

Gloria Steinem

#25. Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

Richard Rohr

#26. Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

Frans De Waal

#27. To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Pearl Zhu

#28. Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

Ayn Rand

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Thomas A. Stewart

#31. The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

Michelle Alexander

#32. 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

#33. a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.

David Brin

#34. There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Vivienne Westwood

#35. 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.

Stephen Fry

#36. It's not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school; it's something we collectively force one another to do.

Tim Kreider

#37. In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

Jens Voigt

#38. 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

#39. The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

Manning Marable

#40. I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

William P. Leahy

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

Gloria Steinem

#42. When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

Andy Kindler

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

Simon Baker

#44. What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

William P. Leahy

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

Rob Pike

#46. The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#47. Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

Chellis Glendinning

#48. 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.

Chris Hayes

#49. Dr. Fortunato," Kristine shot back at Laurie, her resentment undisguised. "You don't know how we do things in Wright. Dr. Parrish doesn't care about hospital hierarchy. He's very accessible and he'd never let his ego get in the way of patient care. Maybe you do things differently where you work-

Lisa Scottoline

#50. Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

Andrea Dworkin

#51. Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

Douglas Hofstadter

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

Barney Frank

#53. His lack of condemnatory zeal gave him a reputation in the religious hierarchy that ensured he would always remain a humble teacher in a backwater town.

Richard K. Morgan

#54. I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.

Alan Bennett

#55. A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Iqbal Quadir

#56. Christianity is a misogynistic hierarchy of oppression.

Anonymous

#57. Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to "please" anyone but themselves

David Brunner

#58. I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

John Cleese

#59. Don't you mean 'assclown'?" he looked amused.
"No," I said louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses.

Michelle Hodkin

#60. In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

Chris Bangle

#61. Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

John Sculley

#62. The meritocracy offered liberation from the unjust hierarchies of race, gender, and sexual orientation, but swapped in their place a new hierarchy based on the notion that people are deeply unequal in ability and drive.

Christopher L. Hayes

#63. Perhaps these leaders understood that the person sitting at the apex of the intelligence hierarchy is the genius maker, not the genius.

Liz Wiseman

#64. Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

Gloria Steinem

#65. I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

Callan McAuliffe

#66. 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.

Jeanne Moreau

#67. The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.

Ken Wilber

#68. The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one's own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.

Ayn Rand

#69. Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.

Deepak Chopra

#70. You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#71. Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Mary Douglas

#72. Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.

Barton Gellman

#73. We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Andrew Lansley

#74. For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to myself, "The Catholic church is my church, and by God, I'm going to stay here, despite what the hierarchy does."

Anna Quindlen

#75. It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.

Susan Jacoby

#76. The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Anita Borg

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

J.B. Priestley

#78. Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

Andrew Pettegree

#79. He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy - something Americans do particularly well.

Robert L. O'Connell

#80. Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

Linda Colley

#81. If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

David Whyte

#82. I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#83. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.

Paul Graham

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

William Butler Yeats

#85. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#86. SSRIs augment social dominance behaviors, elevating an animal's status in the hierarchy. So they may well help women get along, and even get ahead, in the workplace, but at what cost?

Julie Holland

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

Eric Robert Morse

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

Megan Whalen Turner

#89. I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.

Marge Piercy

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

Igor Levit

#91. There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

James Lovelock

#92. Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

Lee Child

#93. Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.

Ashley Montagu

#94. It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#95. 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.

Bertrand Russell

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

Edward Abbey

#97. There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

Tim DeKay

#98. found on other Unix-like systems. The design is actually specified in a published standard called the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

William E. Shotts Jr.

#99. Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

Lorrie Moore

#100. I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

Robert Anton Wilson