"is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally."

“All societies are unequal, but some are more unequal than others.”

“Individualism denotes the relationship between the individual and the collectivity which prevails in a given society.”

“Values are a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others.”

“Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.”

“What Machiavelli did not write but what the association between political systems and citizens' mental software suggests is that which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.”

“Collectivism stands for a society in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, which throughout people's lifetime continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.”