Quotes on Top Down

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.