#hierarchy

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#every #hierarchy #his #incompetence #level

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

#catholic #catholic church #church #hierarchy #living

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#doctrine #hierarchy #his #holy #holy spirit

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same. ↗

— George Orwell

#oligarchy #ruling-class #life

Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don't understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration. ↗

— Bob Torres

#hierarchy #veganism #anarchism

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#hierarchy #nazi-germany #anarchism

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

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

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...." These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #hierarchy #overcoming-obstacles #purpose #society