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
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
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
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby 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
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton 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
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
“Where do oligarchs come from? They come from people's shallowness. When people stop being shallow, no oligarch shall get to grow, to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“what it is: an oligarchy,” declared McKinnon. “The system is controlled by a handful of ultra-wealthy people, most of whom got rich… — Jane Mayer 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
Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be… — Aristotle 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
In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson 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
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth,… — Charlie Pierce 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
“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
“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
“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
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and… — Albert Einstein 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
For decades, the Burmese military has been a tool of oligarchy and suppression. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield 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
The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Disaster’s good for the oligarchy. Ha,” Billy said to my goggle-eyes. “Fair’s fair. You pull out ‘exsanguinate,’ I pull out ‘oligarchy.’” “I’m… — C.E. Murphy 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
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the… — Anonymous 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
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
