“Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.” — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
“I had no trouble with his readiness to change his attitude. I despise the oppression of social hierarchies and seniority-based systems, unless… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The irony was that the new communist state had created a social hierarchy more elaborate and stratified than anything seen in the… — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.” — Fiston Mwanza Mujila Copy Share Image
In this world some people born are like keys that move the world and exist having no connection to the social hierarchy… — Berserk Copy Share Image
Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As… — Estelle Freedman Copy Share Image
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are,… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
When I went to prom in the early 1990s, I seesawed between my wish to get asked by the right guy and… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly… — Kavita Kane Copy Share Image
“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“If people could climb higher in the social hierarchy in proportion to their incompetence, I guarantee the world would not go round… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“It drips on her head most days, says Champaben, but in the monsoon season it's worse. In rain, worms multiply. Every day,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Man has to wake up from this sleep and to understand that he has a way though which he can end this… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“To us, the argument for material well-being might seem uncontroversial. But in the eighteenth century, material prosperity was frequently condemned as "luxury"… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Janet did not believe it was feasible to be single; to Janet a bachelor eked out his living on the margins of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“It's one of my profound thoughts, but it came from another profound thought. It was one of Papa's guests, at the dinner… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Make her qualify herself a few times before escalating to a first date. Doing this will imply to her that you are… — Strategic Lothario Copy Share Image
“Even more importantly, there simply is no direct relation between physical strength and social power among humans. People in their sixties usually… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The third leg of critical pedagogy's three-legged stool involves something called "affective learning." How students feel in class shapes so much of… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“Part of Wordsworth’s complaint was directed towards the smoke, congestion, poverty and ugliness of cities, but clean-air bills and slum clearance would… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“ Sociological Explanations Sociologists theorize that people can live together in peace because of the development of a social hierarchy that ranges… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
When such a perfect society will be created or if it will ever be created is a question as difficult to answer… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“The psychologist Jonathan Haidt says many people who don’t consciously believe in karma still believe deep down in some version of it,… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“This line of thinking became Mather’s everlasting justification of social hierarchy: the ambitious lowly resembled Satan; his kind of elites resembled God.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
