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• 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.

  Murray Rothbard

  Absurd, Ruthless, Behinds

  Murray Rothbard (2009). “Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Animal, Agreement, Law

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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• All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.

  Herman Melville

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Angel, Would Be

  Duino Elegies no. 1 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Circles, Political

  Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.47, CUP Archive

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• Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

  Warren Buffett

  Team, People, Design

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• Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

  Michael Marmot

  Behaviour, Influence, Position

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• We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

  Harold Leavitt

  Management, Social, Indicators

  Harold J. Leavitt (2005). “Top Down: Why Hierarchies are Here to Stay and how to Manage Them More Effectively”, p.35, Harvard Business Press

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• The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Evil, Scales

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.149, Counterpoint Press

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• Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

  Eileen Wilks

  Dog, Cat, Numbers

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.64, Penguin

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• In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

  Jens Voigt

  Dog, Way

  "Tour de France 2013: Christophe Riblon wins stage 18 - as it happened" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2013.

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• For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Reality, Role Playing, Roles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.

  Evo Morales

  Hurtful, Majority, Bolivia

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Faces, Ass

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• For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.

  Philip Roth

  Loyalty, Baseball, Strong

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• Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

  Estelle Freedman

  Men, Political, Understanding

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• What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reality, Thinking, Data

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• Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Doe, Done

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, January 4, 2011.

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• There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

  Murray Bookchin

  Differences, Function, Humans

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• I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential, have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy.

  Graham Hancock

  Thinking, Mind, Substance

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• We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

  Christopher Dawson

  Religious, Perfection, Live In The Moment

  Christopher Dawson (2001). “Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.176, CUA Press

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• The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

  Paul Beatty

  Long, Anger And Fear, Courses

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Division, States

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• If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

  Banksy

  Sex, Dirty, Role Models

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• Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Organization, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.62, Zondervan

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