Nature of man Quote by Bob Torres

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

— Harold Leavitt

“The relation of the human & animality is not a hierarchical relation, but lateral, an overcoming that does not abolish kinship”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“That families are better off the stronger and more stable they are is self-evidently important. But so is the notion that no family can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement are not…

— Cass R. Sunstein

...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to…

— Maximus the Confessor

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

— Octavia E. Butler

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

— Mary Douglas

“The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need to eliminate hierarchical…

— Murray Bookchin

“Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.”

— Elyse Draper

“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.”

— Carl William Brown

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

— Douglas Hofstadter

“A natural family.” Perhaps this easy acceptance between adults and unrelated children, the diffuse nurturing found in societies where children refer to all men…

— Christopher Ryan