Citizens Quote by Paul Lafargue

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

“In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally…

— Larry M. Bartels

“In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy an exceptional…

— Bertrand Russell

“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale…

— James Dale Davidson

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg

“Nothing is more difficult than to equalize the action of the government in reference to the various and diversified interests of the community; and…

— John C. Calhoun

“It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it;…

— Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”

— Newton Lee

“Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.”

— Mark Steyn

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

“Politics is the new Monopoly, and the board keeps shrinking for the common man.”

— Dipti Dhakul

“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.”

— Howard Zinn