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1. “If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.”

Mark Cuban

Management, Startups, Hierarchy, Organizational Structure, Politics

2. “It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.”

W.H. Auden

Pleasure, Hierarchy, Hunger, Philosophy, Human Needs

3. “Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers – If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.”

John Milton

Power, Hierarchy, Divine Order, Cosmic Structure, Authority

4. “Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.”

John Milton

Hell, Evil, Hierarchy, Chaos, Biblical Allusion

5. “The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

Aldous Huxley

Population, Society, Hierarchy, Structure, Social Model, Hidden Majority

6. “The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.”

Orson Scott Card

Nobility, Childhood, Hierarchy, Social Commentary, Perspective Shift, Value Redefinition

7. “Man – all mankind, that is to say – is so naturally depraved that he suffers less from universal degradation than from the establishment of a reasonable hierarchy.”

Charles Baudelaire

Depraved Mankind, Universal Suffering, Hierarchy Flaws, Mankind, Suffering, Hierarchy

8. “He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.”

Voltaire

Second Rank, Eclipsed First, Ambition, Perspective, Hierarchy

9. “When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”

Voltaire

Royal Concerns, Mice Ease, Authority, Indifference, Hierarchy

10. “All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

Isaac Asimov

Domination Resentment, Power Dynamics, Authority, Hierarchy, Psychology, Rebellion

11. “Their whole training has been authoritarian. They are sure that the Emperor, just because he is the Emperor, is all-powerful. And they are sure that the Board of Trustees, simply because it is the Board of Trustees acting in the name of the Emperor, cannot be in a position where it does not give the orders.”

Isaac Asimov

Authority Emperor, Power Training, Control, Hierarchy, Governance, Loyalty

12. “They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.”

Isaac Asimov

Revolution Conformity, Hierarchical Integration, Resentments, Revolution, Obedience, Hierarchy

13. “Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.”

George Bernard Shaw

Titles Mediocrity, Social Hierarchy, Titles, Mediocrity, Hierarchy, Social

14. “If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison

Social Injustice, Racial Hierarchy, Equality Struggles, Injustice, Hierarchy, Struggles

15. “Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Hierarchy, Culture, Formality, Relationships, Language

16. “Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”

Charles Dickens

Social Class, Hatred, Hierarchy, Reflection, Class

17. “All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science, Philosophy, Values, Knowledge, Hierarchy

18. “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”

George Orwell

Humanity, Consumption, Existence, Nature, Hierarchy

19. “The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.”

George Orwell

Class, Revolution, Hierarchy, Social Order, Power

20. “If human equality is to be forever averted – if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently – then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”

George Orwell

Inequality, Control, Insanity, Power, Hierarchy

21. “The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.”

George Orwell

Hierarchy, Power, Control, Stability, Totalitarianism

22. “If you’re an unknown artist you’re lucky to get an hour in a studio—it’s a hierarchy and if you don’t have hits, you don’t get recorded again.”

John Lennon

Music Industry, Art, Struggle, Hierarchy, Opportunity

23. “Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

Winston Churchill

Hierarchy, Strategy, Influence, Priority, Focus

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