#hierarchy

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ↗

— Barney Frank

#hierarchy #legislators #responsibilities #set #together

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...." These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #hierarchy #overcoming-obstacles #purpose #society

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 individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#born #cultures #democracies #division #emancipation

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#hierarchy #education

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#i #prison #right #top

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

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

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

#catholic church #church #come #community #going

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#forgiveness #hierarchy #i #judgment #made

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

#been #doing #everyday #everyday life #find

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#every #hierarchy #his #incompetence #level