Hierarchy Quotations | Page 2

All of the imagery, all of the symbolism of American hierarchy of what's viewed as powerful and desirable, really finds its most immediate symbol, in this case, in lacrosse players.

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

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

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

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.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

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.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

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.

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

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.

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.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

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.

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

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

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

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.