Money Quote by Jane Mayer

“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to them.”

— Anonymous

“Liberal critics, like the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, worried that the country was in danger of being transformed…

— Jane Mayer

“the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth”

— George Orwell

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth…

— Thomas Peterffy

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

— Rick Perry

“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who…

— Howard Zinn

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are…

— George Orwell

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated…

— Bernie Sanders

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich’.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“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