I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to… — Joseph Pulitzer 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
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote.… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between… — H. L. Mencken 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
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder. — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
