Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner 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
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
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
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
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
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
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it… — Chris Hayes 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
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
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
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“Oligarchy: Rule by the few, usually the richest One Percent. In Aristotle’s political theory, oligarchy is the stage into which democracy evolves,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The pattern of vicious circle depicted by the transition between Haile Selassie and Mengistu, or between the British colonial governors of Sierra… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a… — Immortal Technique 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
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
