We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius 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
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 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
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. — Aristotle 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
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
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few… — Robert Payne 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
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
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
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“On the political Right, the erosion of state power by international capitalism seems natural; on the political Left, rudderless revolutions portray themselves… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Every democracy, whether ochlocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, anarchy, proletarian, popular, or liberal, is by its very nature always a scotocracy, that is,… — Andrej Poleev Copy Share Image
Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor,… — Albert Einstein 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
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“America was a “civil oligarchy” in which a tiny and extremely wealthy slice of the population was able to use its vastly… — Jane Mayer 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
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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner 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
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
