Dead Quote by Gary Shteyngart

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot…

— Matt Taibbi

“The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There will be…

— Jack London

Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on…

— Keith Gessen

“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to them.”

— Anonymous

All the time, Ukraine was an oligarch country. And all the time, oligarchs were together with the authorities. And this is the first time…

— Petro Poroshenko

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying…

— Alexei Mordashov

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their powers.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

— Aristotle

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in…

— Bernard Crick

Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many Western corporations…

— Garry Kasparov

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

— Yuri Milner

I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy…

— Nancy MacLean