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I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. — William P. Leahy

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all... — Josh Burggraf

I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind. — Adam Schlesinger

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. — Italo Calvino

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does. — Eric Robert Morse

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers. — Nancy Kline

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. — Megan Whalen Turner

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. — Anais Nin

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. — Edward Abbey

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer. — Jack Welch

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals. — John Sculley

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

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

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints. — Honore De Balzac

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. — Rob Pike

If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice. — Brad Steiger

An employee's relationship - by blood, marriage or acquaintance - with a person above him in the hierarchy. — Laurence J. Peter

It is rightly said that we all are equal. The only thing that puts us in a hierarchy is our effort. — Varun Bhat

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over. — John Keay

Together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people. — Rigoberta Menchu

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich

a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy. — David Brin

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

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. — Andrea Dworkin

To recreate a new aristocracy is the eternal task of every revolutionary project. — Guillaume Faye

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know? — Meshell Ndegeocello

In business, everyone has a different weight. — Nabil N. Jamal

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. — Andrew Lansley

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. — Iqbal Quadir

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace. — Simon Baker

A hierarchy within the hierarchy — Victoria Aveyard

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

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen

GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships. — Mal Fletcher

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way. — Steven Rodney McQueen

A pyramid signifies hierarchy, yet no hierarchy is evident in the Food Pyramid. — Chip Heath

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. — Nellie McKay

You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System. — W. Edwards Deming

I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts. — Seth Numrich

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions — Audre Lorde

The moment one begins thinking about morality in terms of well-being, it becomes remarkably easy to discern a moral hierarchy across human societies. — Sam Harris

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance. — Stephen Fry

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted. — Carl Sagan

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment. — Mary Douglas

No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough. — Sarah Dunant

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing. — William P. Leahy

Perhaps these leaders understood that the person sitting at the apex of the intelligence hierarchy is the genius maker, not the genius. — Liz Wiseman

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy. — Bell Hooks

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. — Saint Ignatius

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

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen

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

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

Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy? — Christopher Hitchens

When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless. — Ed Catmull

Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy. — Bauvard

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

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. — Toba Beta

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one — Max Weber

However, today there is less hierarchy in the world due to technology. — Erik Qualman

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender. — Sandra Bartky

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. — Anita Borg

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. — Jeff Bezos

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

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. — Jurgen Klinsmann

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J.B. Priestley

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy

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

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards. — Priyavrat Thareja

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. — Damon Galgut

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. — Thomas A. Stewart

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy. — Nenia Campbell

Each being is sacred
meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being. — Starhawk

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee. — Shaquille O'Neal

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — Jose Saramago

Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to "please" anyone but themselves — David Brunner

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

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

Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin. — Elyse Draper

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

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. — Ben Kingsley

Control in business is the combination of written and unwritten rules that create an organizational decision framework and staff hierarchy. — Holly Duckworth

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing ... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. — Peter Schjeldahl

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

Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy. — Lee Child

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy. — Andy Hargreaves

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

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. — Bill Gates

I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines. — Marge Piercy

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation. — Nikolai Gogol

It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another. — Stephanie Coontz

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. — Mary Douglas

Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure. — Noah Cicero

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether. — Gloria Steinem