Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don’t need to have hierarchy so much. – Barbara Ehrenreich
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy. – Barney Frank
Of course, there’s a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that’s part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. – Alex Kapranos
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. – David Deutsch
I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above – in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers – just above, so I felt superior to them. – Frank McCourt
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all. – Saint Ignatius
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct. – Robert Vaughan
