Anxious Quote by Michael Lind

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

— Anonymous

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

— George Orwell

“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

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere.…

— Zephyr Teachout

“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

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

— Timothy Snyder

“In American life, democracy and capitalism, despite their advantages, tend to erode the place of traditional authorities (families, religious faith, and other institutions), while…

— Charles J. Chaput

“We're living in a perverted and twisted smokescreen of democracy that's nothing short of dictatorship, where the unelected actually rule. And behind it lurks…

— Sibel Hodge