Ancient Quote by Catherine Wilson

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

— Tom Metzger

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are…

— Aristotle

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and…

— Bernie Sanders

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no…

— Adam Curtis

We can have a political system that works for the people and allows for the economy to thrive. It doesn't have to be either.

— Jamaal Bowman

“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether they be…

— Noam Chomsky

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy,…

— Aristotle

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

— Van Jones

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

— Elie Wiesel

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling…

— Aristotle