Aberration Quote by Howard Nemerov

“The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor…

— Howard Zinn

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough…

— Howard Zinn

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the…

— Robert Higgs

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in…

— John Adams

If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and…

— John Taylor

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“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

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against…

— James Madison

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

— Mao Zedong

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship…

— Pope Pius XI

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of…

— Herbert Spencer

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a…

— William E. Simon