Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. — Sinclair Lewis · Skopia

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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

It Can't Happen Here · 1935

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Social hierarchy Domination and subordination

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 17.

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