“The “They” was clear, not a worn-out conspiracy theory or fictional legend. “They” were the oligarchies that ran America, and, thanks to… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the… — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013 Copy Share Image
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“the fossil fuel industry is an oligarchy.” Some might dispute that American oil, gas, and coal magnates met the dictionary definition of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
