19 Hierarchical Quotes for You to Enjoy

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world. Octavia E. Butler

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Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. Friedrich August von Hayek

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. J. G. Ballard

Great Change Political Other Statement Way Machine Hierarchical Driven Exclusive Aesthetic Shifts Cultural Optimism Political Statement Suspect Rolls Order Social Much Social Order Many Prepare Populist Largely

The Internet goes doot-doot-doot - it goes sideways. There's nothing hierarchical about it. And the best thing about it is also the worst thing about it, which is there are no gatekeepers on the Internet. Consequently, there's a whole lot of bad information on the Internet. But I think that sorts itself out over time. Molly Ivins

Time Best Internet Nothing Think Sideways Worst Worst Thing Hierarchical Out Bad About Over Also Sort Lot Itself Goes Information Which Whole Thing Gatekeepers Consequently

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people. Helen Mirren

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally. John Naisbitt

People Our System Hierarchical Restructure Computer Institutions Track Because Did Managerial Created Keep Things Needed

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like. Eugene Kennedy

Age World Cake Space Reflect Universe Earth Hierarchical Cosmos Rather Wedding Clearly Like Because Match Does Revelation Than Died Heavens Either Which Unified Separated Multiply Levels Fractured

Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only. Eugene Kennedy

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. Mitch Kapor

Life Best Extraordinarily Hierarchical More Purposes Put Individuals Mass Primitive Audiences Conditions Than Egalitarian Often Frontier Decentralized Which Cyberspace Communities Serve Elitist

Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society. Arundhati Roy

Business People Every Society Everyone Ways Solidarity Hierarchical About Caste Dividing Divisions Because Up Form Lowest Even

Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy. Nell Scovell

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father. Ingmar Bergman

Life God Construction Father King Society Top Hierarchical Obedient About Freeing Souls Up Human Then Creating Slaves

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical. Mona Eltahawy

Hierarchical Religious Authoritarianism Patriarchal Inherently Militarism Fundamentalism

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. Nicholas Negroponte

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What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people. Rachel Dolezal

Reality People Power Believe System Hierarchical About Between Real Privilege Different Race Created Groups Biological Leverage

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. Jane Leavy

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Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s. Luke Harding

Time School Achieve Responsibility Rare Long Long Time First Before Late Relatively Everything Hierarchical Jobs Adolescence Proper Something Fact Reverence Go Germans Germany Get Graduate May Six Seniority Anyone Happens Start Here

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves. Bill Gurley

Time Nature Problem Stronger Every Every Time Everyone Those Hierarchical Case Economic Firm Between New Pie Most Make Partners Another Trying Getting Different In-Between Which Themselves Fund Funds Raises