Money Quote by Jane Mayer

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

— George Orwell

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

— Tom Metzger

“Oligarchy: Rule by the few, usually the richest One Percent. In Aristotle’s political theory, oligarchy is the stage into which democracy evolves, and which…

— Michael Hudson

“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

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

— Pat Robertson

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

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

— Anonymous

Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people... whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy which is…

— Immortal Technique

“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

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and…

— Michael Hudson

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

“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.”

— Timothy Snyder