Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen… — Anonymous 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
For decades, the Burmese military has been a tool of oligarchy and suppression. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton 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
“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
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional… — Giuseppe Prezzolini Copy Share Image
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“They control Europe under the attractive and falsely uniting banner of the “European Union”, the Middle East under the convenient banner of… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enough for me to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Here is one final reason to think that the United States may be a state that uses the language of democracy to… — Jason F. Stanley Copy Share Image
“The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as… — M.B. Dallocchio 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
“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
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
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
