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A leader does not have to be a top-down hierarchist: a leader can be a simple representative.
How to Occupy the moral and political high ground | Naomi Wolf 2011
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How comfortable this to man's sweet estimation of his own petty penances; how glorifying to those "filthy rags," his so-called righteousness: how apt to build up the hierarchist power; how seemingly analogous with man's experience here, where clerks lay the case before commissioners, and commissioners before the government, and the government before the sovereign.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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How comfortable this to man's sweet estimation of his own petty penances; how glorifying to those "filthy rags," his so-called righteousness: how apt to build up the hierarchist power; how seemingly analogous with man's experience here, where clerks lay the case before commissioners, and commissioners before the government, and the government before the sovereign.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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As you move in any of these four directions, as well as getting more of what you want, you also get more and more involved in coercive social relations: more followers (in return for promised rewards) if you're an individualist, more excluded if you're a fatalist, more rights and obligations if you're a hierarchist, and more and more like everyone else if you're an egalitarian.
P2P Foundation 2008
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Well, the solutions to climate change are going to take all kinds of government 'butting in', all sorts of adjustments to the economic status quo, interventions that will mean new winners and losers, changes to who's where on the economic and power ladder, and to a hierarchist i.e. conservative, that means somebody else's sort of society - the society of Egalitarians who want things flexible and fair, not rigid and bound by class and hierarchy -- is going to prevail.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Ropeik 2011
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“The truth is that with all my talk of networks, I’m really a closet hierarchist,” she says.
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