“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
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
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
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
“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
I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such… — Angus Deaton 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
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers 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
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
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we… — Jose Saramago 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
It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own… — Edward Norton 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
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
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
Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to… — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
“The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists.… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll 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 need to be telling as many people as possible that these are not the only alternatives. We need to be promoting… — Kevin A. Carson 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame — Dean Cavanagh 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
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
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