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Quotes about Hierarchy

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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...culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy.

Jim Collins : Gaia Explorer
Jim Collins
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A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to sentences to paragraphs. The whole of one level becomes part of the whole of the next. In other words, natural hierarchies are composed of holons.

Ken Wilber : Pandit
Ken Wilber
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