Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. Wright Mills

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

Estelle

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Herbie Hancock

I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.

Deepak Chopra

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Stephen Fry

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Stephan Pastis

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.

Louis Jourdan

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

John Lydon

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

Robin McLeavy

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Brandon Lee

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

Charles Schumer

This process is getting a little more absurd the further we move,

Ken Watanabe

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

John Major

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

R. Robinson

We have got be more ruthless in our approach,

Orson Scott Card

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Ken Follett

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Robert Kennedy

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.