Level Quotes

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. (Norman Mailer)

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

Kiran Desai

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.

Eckhart Tolle

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Alan Perlis

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

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

Laurence J. Peter

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

James Thurber

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

James Thurber

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. (Ayn Rand)

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

Muammar Gaddafi

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Samuel Richardson

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Huey P. Newton

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day.

Marcus Buckingham

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

Enrico Fermi

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. (Quentin Crisp)

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

Christian Lous Lange

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

W. Averell Harriman

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Mahatma Gandhi

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