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Definition of Hierarchy

Hierarchy

  1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.
  2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
  3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
  4. A rank or order of holy beings.

Hierarchy Quotations

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

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

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

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
Anna Quindlen

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
Vivienne Westwood
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Hierarchy Translations

hierarchy in German is Hierarchie
hierarchy in Hungarian is rangsor, rangszervezet, hierarchia

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