Hierarchy Quote by Robert Sapolsky

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

— Robert Sapolsky

“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e., the latest…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups…

— Gloria Steinem

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

“What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?”

— Branko Milanović

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among…

— F. Sionil Jose

“I conceive two species of inequality among men; one which I call natural, or physical inequality, because it is established by nature, and consists…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century…

— Michael Mandelbaum

“The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women…

— O. T. Fagbenle

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal"…

— Freda Adler

I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family…

— Ilhan Omar