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Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often pr...

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We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundr...

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Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchi...

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Bell hooksFeminist Theory: From Margin to Center

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Vi...

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Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

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Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to s...

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By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while anothe...

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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.