Elite Quote by Guy Standing

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and…

— Winnie Byanyima

We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect…

— Hilary Benn

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

— Anonymous

It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms on which…

— Paul Romer

What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously,…

— Henry Giroux

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they…

— James Buchan

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is…

— Bernie Sanders

People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level…

— Peace Pilgrim

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights, and who…

— James Madison

Every good government's duty is to do more for the regions that are underdeveloped.

— Amit Shah

“Neofeudalism: Much as warlords seized land in the Norman Conquest and levied rent on subject populations (starting with the Domesday Book, the great land…

— Michael Hudson