Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“what it is: an oligarchy,” declared McKinnon. “The system is controlled by a handful of ultra-wealthy people, most of whom got rich from the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Oligarchy: Rule by the few, usually the richest One Percent. In Aristotle’s political theory, oligarchy is the stage into which democracy evolves, and which… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
“You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.” — Selina Todd Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
