Social Hierarchy Quotes:

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.17, Vintage Canada

topic: Animal, Forever, Social Hierarchy, Unforgiving

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

topic: Peace, Abuse, Foundation, Social Hierarchy

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

- Peter Schjeldahl

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Reality, Role Playing, Roles, Social Hierarchy

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

- John Cleese

source: "The Human Face". Documentary, 2001.

topic: Laughter, Distance, Humor, Social Hierarchy, Laughter And Joy

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

- Chellis Glendinning

source: Source: www.scottlondon.com

topic: Technology, Racism, Hierarchy, Social Hierarchy, Capitalization

Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the family--it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.

- Zick Rubin

topic: Children, Parent, Peers, Social Hierarchy

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

- Richard Linklater

topic: Responsibility, People, Would Be, Social Hierarchy, Slacker

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

- Richard Linklater

topic: Ambition, Everyday, Finding Yourself, Social Hierarchy

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

- Estelle Freedman

topic: Men, Political, Understanding, Social Hierarchy, Political Equality

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

- Raoul Vaneigem

topic: Power, Purchasing, Purchasing Power, Social Hierarchy, Flogging