A Quote by Mary Douglas

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Mary Douglas

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Environment Hierarchy Stable Well Works

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Mary Douglas
British - Scientist
March 25, 1921 - May 16, 2007

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Robert Winston

I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

Campbell Brown

A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

Lakshmi Mittal

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

Steven Rodney McQueen

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

Jamie Cullum

A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth.

Thomas a Kempis

Well, I like the environment. I think anybody who owns land or really likes going out hunting, they care about the environment as well.

Madison Cawthorn

Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.

Anita Roddick

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

Terence McKenna

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Dan Savage

Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.

Thomas Kuhn

The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human built environment and the connectivity between the two - how do the natural environment and the human-built environment interact and interface with each other.

Ken Yeang

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

C. Wright Mills

Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction.