“Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics.”— Philip Warren Anderson
“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”— Adolf Eichmann
“Simple peck-order behavior serves to keep the community in order. It’s everybody’s duty to know his place.”— Octavia E. Butler
“Let this circumstance of our constitution be remarked, that our superiors are known to us, but we are not known to them.”— Adam Weishaupt
“Feminist politics aims to overthrow the most ancient, most fundamental of all hierarchies.”— Charlotte Bunch
“The Church is an absolute monarchy with the Pope as its head and the bishops as his branch managers.”— Pat Buckley
“I think it's a director's medium. I think the director is the most important person on the set.”— Michael Pitt
“The trigger for a fight is often a challenge, which creates an implicit contest over who is superior.”— Roger V. Gould