Community Quote by Marie Brennan

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

— Dorothy Thompson

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism,…

— Camille Paglia

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by…

— George Orwell

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

— James Salter

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

— Edward Abbey

“Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to it. As…

— Margaret Atwood

Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with…

— Noam Chomsky

“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To”

— George Orwell

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

— Michelle Dockery

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin