Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder. — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.” — Suzy Kassem 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
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers 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
“Would he read the paper and see that the Union he saved was now a dysfunctional plutocracy,” — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic… — Irving Fisher 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
But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“And don’t forget that it is the press, the pulpit, and the university that mould public opinion, set the thought-pace of the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than… — Peter Singer 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
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
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
“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
Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
“We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Dear Editor: Rousseau thought that democracy was a good idea, but unworkable. Plato recommended an intellectual aristocracy, with ‘philosopher kings’ using psychological… — Anonymous 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
“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
“True choice requires that a person have the ability to choose an option and not be prevented from choosing it by any… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.” — Ron Suskind 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
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
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