Hierarchy Quotes

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

— Douglas Hofstadter

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

— Audre Lorde

“What matters is not who says it, but what is being said.”

— Jesaja Senones

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

— Stephen Fry

“A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.”

— Amit Kalantri

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

— Grady Booch

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

— Robert Bly

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

— Anonymous

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

— Bill Gates

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

— Rob Pike

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a…

— Ely Culbertson

“hierarchy-making was wielded in the service of a political project: enslavement.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change…

— Rigoberta Menchu

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.

— Nellie McKay

“Is it better today to be in a network, which gives you influence, than in a hierarchy, which gives you power?”

— Niall Ferguson

The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which…

— Malcolm Godwin

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business…

— Brad Feld

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is…

— Benito Mussolini

“Humans have far longer memories than do animals and, thus revenge -the social settling of accounts with those who offended them- assumes…

— Azar Gat

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are,…

— Richard Linklater

“Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised,…

— Yvonne Korshak

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function…

— Murray Bookchin

It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all…

— Sharon Gannon

A lot of people don't see me as a funny character because I don't usually get to play them. I'm usually cast…

— Angie Harmon

I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes…

— Joan Hackett

“Revenge has probably been the most regular and prominent cause of fighting cited in anthropological accounts of pre-state societies. Violence was activated…

— Azar Gat

Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed…

— Jane Rule

In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry…

— Deepak Chopra

Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the…

— Dennis Kucinich

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine…

— David Levithan

“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows,…

— Murray Bookchin

“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is…

— Ernst Jünger

“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory…

— Kenichi Fukui

“Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty…

— Teju Cole

“What is the bottom line for the animal/human hierarchy? I think it is at the animate/inanimate line, and Carol Adams and others…

— Anonymous

“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated…

— Francis Parker Yockey

“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in…

— Nadia Owusu