Hierarchy Quotes - Page 2

• Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

  Mary Douglas

  Present Day

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• Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Law, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.38, Routledge

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

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Mean, People, Authority

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

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, People, Workplace

  "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

  Richard Linklater

  Ambition, Everyday, Finding Yourself

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• 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 of the predictive hierarchy - but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

  David Deutsch

  Size, Levels, Scales

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tasks, Philosopher, Problem

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• We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fake People, Believe, White

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

  Ben Kingsley

  Class, London, Certain

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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  Hans Kung

  People, Community, Understanding

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• One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Inspiration, Needs, Debate

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• BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

  William P. Leahy

  Community, Catholic, Church

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• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

  Walter Benjamin

  Taught, Communism, Communist

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• Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

  Mary Douglas

  Religious, Bazaars, Body

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• Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

  Dennis Potter

  Printed Word, Printed, Ideals

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• Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Successful, Class, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Issues

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• Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Celebrity Gossip, Greed, Apathy

  The New York Times, March 25, 2007.

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

  John Keats

  Vision, Olympus, Born

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.314

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• One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

  Carl Sagan

  Dominance, Argument, Scientist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

  Melissa Farley

  Race, Class, Institutions

  "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

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• Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.

  Terence McKenna

  School, Ideas, Ascending

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

  Le Corbusier

  Space, Order, Sky

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• Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Philosophy, Majority

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• Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

  Jean Ziegler

  Corporations, Strategy, Profit

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