Rigid Hierarchy Quotes

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Nothing can be more repugnant to the individualism and love of freedom of the British race than the Hindu caste system, under which every man is born into a particular water-tight compartment from which he cannot emerge except through death and rebirth …

Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?

Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was an established way of thinking. If you poked your head up with a new thought, the system kind of turned against you. It was everything in the way of a dysfunctional big bureaucracy that you would expect.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of ants.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, the popular ones - and we never crossed paths with each other. You stayed in your air-tight group, and you were suspicious of people in other groups.

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.

Bureaucracies cling to their office space, their secretaries [assistants], their official cars, and their every allotted dollar and personnel position with a tenacity that drowning men might well envy.

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

All corporatism - even when practiced in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.