“ In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. ”
- Wright C. Mills- Copy
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“ Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. ”
- Polybius- Copy
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“ In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ Toryism has the historical context of hierarchy and elitism and is a different kind of political philosophy. It's not my favourite term, but we're probably stuck with it. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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“ A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. ”
- Ely Culbertson- Copy
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“ All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Nothing can be effectively controlled, in the long run, from the top of a hierarchy — or from any one perspective. People are basically trustworthy. Only workplaces that give their members the chance to learn and add value through their work will succeed in the long run. ”
- Art Kleiner- Copy
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“ Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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