Hierarchy Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Julie Burchill

  Levels, Worship, Despise

  "Once we had anarchy in the UK. Now all we have is monarchy in the UK". www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

  John Sculley

  Organization, Ideas, People

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• 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

  Somewhere Else, Two, Film And Television

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Military, Women, Feminism

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

  Charles Olson

  Eye, Infinite, Mass

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government

  Rufus King

  Teacher, Government, People

  Rufus King (1971). “The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: 1755-1794”

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• In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

  Roberto Unger

  Fire, Humanity, Democracy

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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• There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.

  Peter James

  Military, Years, Police

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• In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

  Steven Johnson

  Hands, Decision, Boss

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• I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.

  Tony Hale

  Team, Believe, Care

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• 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.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Roles, Spirit, Bigs

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• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  Edward T. Hall

  Voice, Culture, Movement

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

  Rob Pike

  Programming, Type, Manage

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• ...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Light, Perfection

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• The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. . . . Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and . . . our system of free government would be imperfect without it.

  John Tyler

  Men, Office, Support

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• As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that covers a lot of other things as well. I think there's an Informel element in Beuys, as well; but it all began with Duchamp and chance, or with Mondrian, or with the Impressionists. The Informel is the opposite of the constructional quality of classicism - the age of kings, or clearly formed hierarchies.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Kings, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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• One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Army, Greatness, Discipline

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• There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

  Margaret Mead

  Arrogance, Self Control, Culture

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.152, Berghahn Books

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• 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

  Swings, Catholic, Voters

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Angel, Technology, Miracle

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

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• You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Running, Organization

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Government, Incompetence, Machinery

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• 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

  People, Environment, Social

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• The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Thinking, Russia

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