Hierarchy Quotes

232 Hierarchy quotes by 201 unique authors

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within… — Murray Bookchin
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. — Niklaus Wirth
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command. — Robert Jackson Bennett
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st… — Will Cotton
Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles. — Joseph Campbell
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the… — Clive Barker
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an… — Wendell Berry
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family.… — Phylicia Rashad
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of… — Roberto Unger
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that… — Gerhard Richter
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The… — John Tyler
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because… — Fernand Leger
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love… — Tim DeKay
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level… — David Deutsch
When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. — Rob Pike
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture… — Edward T. Hall
I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have… — Tony Hale
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions… — Steven Johnson
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for… — Peter James
Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's… — Philip Yancey
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… — Bob Torres
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive… — Maximus the Confessor
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. — Bertrand Russell

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