"We are a naturally hierarchical species." — Octavia Butler

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• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A… — J. G. Ballard
• The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always… — George Orwell
• The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots… — Janet Holmes a Court
• Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey
• We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed,… — John Cleese
• What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines. — Ignatius Loyola
• The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is… — Noam Chomsky
• The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social… — Jane Smiley
• English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to… — Tomson Highway
• A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains… — Julius Evola
• American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been. — Martin Fleischmann

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