A Quote by Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Dennis Potter

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Across Ideals Jump Printed Printed Word Word

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Dennis Potter
British - Dramatist
May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Jordan Peterson

If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice.

Brad Steiger

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Timothy Noah

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

Robert Vaughn

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Henrik Ibsen

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Henrik Ibsen

We know that we can defeat Islamist terrorism without violating our ideals; indeed, we must. These ideals, these American ideals.

Evan McMullin

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

Paula Danziger

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

Margaret Haddix

The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.

Marina Warner

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

Walter Lippmann

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.