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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.

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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