Democracy Quote by Humza Yousaf

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and…

— Bernie Sanders

Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

— Hillary Clinton

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and…

— Bernie Sanders

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or…

— Aristotle

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic…

— Noam Chomsky

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of…

— Mark Twain

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of…

— Hillary Clinton

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy…

— Aristotle

“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

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't…

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

— Hugo Chavez