Plutocracy Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

• The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem… — Wendell Berry
• I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
• The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. — William Graham Sumner
• People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a… — Jose Saramago
• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It… — J F C Fuller
• Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the… — Irving Fisher
• Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose… — Joseph Pulitzer
• Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. — Rutherford B. Hayes
• The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no… — H. L. Mencken
• We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a… — Ramsey Clark
• Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom
• Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,… — Mark Twain
• Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine… — Nomi Prins
• This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. — H. L. Mencken
• Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. — Graham Joyce
• If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests,… — Robert Reich
• There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;… — Theodore Roosevelt
• Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had… — Ramsey Clark
• There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin.… — Andrew Ross Sorkin
• It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a… — Peter Singer

Who Wrote These Plutocracy Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Plutocracy Quotes as follows:

• 2 Plutocracy Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 2 Plutocracy Quotes by Ramsey Clark
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Harold Bloom
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Nomi Prins
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Graham Joyce
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Robert Reich
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Peter Singer
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Wendell Berry
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Eugene V. Debs
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by William Graham Sumner
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Jose Saramago
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by J F C Fuller
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Irving Fisher
• 1 Plutocracy Quote by Joseph Pulitzer