Hierarchy Quotes

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

The federal agencies did respond promptly but the direction and hierarchy were missing,

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don`t know is whether (Catholic voters) will become increasingly conservative, or ... stay swing voters.

We completely respect people`s right to worship, ... However, we are very concerned that the church hierarchy has made taking away marriage equality _ and replacing it with nothing else _ such a high priority.

We completely respect people`s right to worship. However, we are very concerned that the church hierarchy has made taking away marriage equality _ and replacing it with nothing else _ such a high priority.

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.