#hierarchy

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

— Ben Kingsley

#certain extent #class #extent #hierarchy #like

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

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#away #delegate #had #hierarchy #i

One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles’ heel of armies, police and bureaucracies. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#bureaucracies #bureaucracy #elite #hierarchy #power

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#hierarchy #much #present #reviled

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#directly #hierarchy #intervention #much #need

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#celebrity #entertainment #fundamental #gossip #greed

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#becomes #certain #course #elitism #feels

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

#care #geeky #ground #guys #hierarchy

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. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#ecological #equilibrium #future #hierarchy #idea

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#future #ground #hierarchy #now #obligation