Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies
We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.
In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.
I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper you are establishing a hierarchy of some sort - this emotion over that emotion, this memory over that memory, this thought over another. And isn't that process of establishing a hierarchy on the page a kind of political act?
Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.
There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.