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> [“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to struggle under the yoke of democracy (plutocracy by another name) for another century or two, or perhaps three,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/because-it-is-a-curious-challenge-for-western-man-to-distinguish/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

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## Other authors on Plutocracy

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## More by Tom Fahy

> [“Desert this mad and unfounded obsession with the so-called truth. In pursuit of truth, you are guaranteed a long and perilous run through a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/desert-this-mad-and-unfounded-obsession-with-the-so-called-truth-in/)

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> [“That cruelty is part of nature is the little lie. That cruelty is part of human nature is the big one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/that-cruelty-is-part-of-nature-is-the-little-lie-that-cruelty-is-part/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to struggle under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/because-it-is-a-curious-challenge-for-western-man-to-distinguish/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“Play both sides against the middle and the middle against itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/play-both-sides-against-the-middle-and-the-middle-against-itself/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“The information manager must work assiduously to synthesize a truth. Then, in order to flourish, that truth must come under intense and prolonged persecution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/the-information-manager-must-work-assiduously-to-synthesize-a-truth/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“I only listen for one knell — the knell of Rationalism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/i-only-listen-for-one-knell-the-knell-of-rationalism/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“It remains the hidden aim of democracy to supplant what is national, spiritual, integrating, and paternal with a chimerical system that is at once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/it-remains-the-hidden-aim-of-democracy-to-supplant-what-is-national/)

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> [“If you want to bury an idea, personify it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/if-you-want-to-bury-an-idea-personify-it/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“If there is a cause that he wishes to sabotage, it is an ineluctable fact that the information manager must first feign to support…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/if-there-is-a-cause-that-he-wishes-to-sabotage-it-is-an-ineluctable/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“From where inspiration comes, I don’t know. But that we seek fulfillment in a companion suggests we desire an object onto which we may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/from-where-inspiration-comes-i-don-t-know-but-that-we-seek/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“There is a special kind of moral support that a man craves from his peers. If he doesn’t get it, a man has two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/there-is-a-special-kind-of-moral-support-that-a-man-craves-from-his/)

[Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/)

> [“Nothing is more virtuous, and therefore more precious, than to be able to deny cake. But I contend that there is something unseemly about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/nothing-is-more-virtuous-and-therefore-more-precious-than-to-be-able/)

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