Arms Quote by John Taylor

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public…

— Joel Miller

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

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and…

— Denis Diderot

“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

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

— George Will

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules…

— Elizabeth Janeway