I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller 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
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
The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy. — Jane Mayer 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
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby 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
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
Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 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
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their… — Abhijit Naskar 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 the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an… — Aristotle 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
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
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
