Democracy Quote by H.G. Wells

“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power…

— H.G. Wells

“At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne…

— Oswald Spengler

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society…

— Walter Lippmann

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of…

— Orson F. Whitney

“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget…

— Sherwood Anderson

“All those things happened before the reforms that ended bureaucratic practices. And those reforms made it possible for decisive men to take charge and…

— Andreas Christensen

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.”

— Jerry Ash

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day…Never surrender.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century…

— Oscar Wilde

“The power of destruction which had once been the ultimate privilege of government was now the only power left in the world--and it was…

— H.G. Wells

We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a…

— George Soros