Top 1200 Social Hierarchy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

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

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

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

Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.

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

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

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.

I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.

The kudos and hierarchy of playing in the Premier League for a footballer is huge.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

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

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

Music is similar to sport. There is very fast feedback, learning, and a clear hierarchy of expertise.

If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.

There's no sort of hierarchy at 'Corrie.' The crew get on.

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.

I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that. My favorite phrase is "It takes a lot of imagination to have no talent." So it's a struggle because I struggle between thinking about whether or not I'm actually a musician, am I actually an artist. Does it matter what I'm doing? Should I just go and jump off a bridge? Thinking about the social hierarchy and the fact that I'm American, and how I don't identify with being American, nor do I identify with any nationality or my race.

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

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

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commons, the social economy. It is all the activity we engage in to create social capital. It doesn't create capital market. Social commons is growing faster than the market place. It is growing faster than the market place. The social commons include any activity that is deeply social and collaborative.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

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

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

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

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

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

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

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

The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news.

Economic policy and foreign policy in Europe have been too liberal. We have failed when it comes to maintaining the social contract, which is the very foundation of the social-democratic social model.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

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

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

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

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

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

It is a British legacy that we have such a strict hierarchy that we can't even write a letter to our PM.