Chilly Quote by Graham Joyce Download Open image “Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.” — Graham Joyce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chilly Icy Inaccessible Nuance Perfect Plutocracy Rich
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to struggle under… — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
“...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.” — Robert Wade Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy —… — Wendell Berry 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
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The government system we have now is set up just like that of Rome and is changing into a system I call Corpocracism (Babylon,… — Brian David Mattson Copy Share Image
“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.” — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“The most extraordinary thing about it all was how simple it was just to carry on. There were meals to be prepared and eaten;… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Someone said that thirty was a significant birthday, and everyone around the table agreed. Someone else said it was the first time you heard… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“The sun was up and I want to say that it was golden, but it wasn't golden, it was the color of treacle. I… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.” — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't… — Nathaniel Kahn Copy Share Image
I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking,… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I… — Harry Graham Copy Share Image
Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic of leaves… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image