A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Disaster’s good for the oligarchy. Ha,” Billy said to my goggle-eyes. “Fair’s fair. You pull out ‘exsanguinate,’ I pull out ‘oligarchy.’” “I’m… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Don't sit around waiting for the two corrupted established parties to restore the Constitution or the Republic. The founding generation was birthed… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court… — Christopher Peterson Copy Share Image
“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
“Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The oligarchy was divided into Liberals and Conservatives, who were united in their terror of communism after the success of the Cuban… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Liberal critics, like the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, worried that the country was in danger of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“On the American Oligarchy "How about the United States?" a man yelled from the audience. "And what about it?" Martin retorted. "The… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
