Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built…

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

In this world some people born are like keys that move the world and exist having no connection to the social hierarchy established by…

— Berserk

Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the family--it is…

— Zick Rubin

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy…

— John Cleese

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is…

— Yann Martel

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you…

— Richard Linklater

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result,…

— Estelle Freedman

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before…

— Richard Linklater

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is…

— Robert Vaughan

Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the…

— Bob Torres

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to…

— Murray Bookchin

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to…

— Noam Chomsky

I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and…

— Gloria Steinem