Corruption Quote by Robert Payne

“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

After decades of systematic plundering of state property by corrupt oligarchs, the country needs a collective awakening.

— Jovenel Moise

“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

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

— Pat Robertson

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

— George Orwell

The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations,…

— C. Wright Mills

We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends…

— Friedrich Engels

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the…

— Lee R. Raymond

“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

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

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it…

— Charlie Pierce

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the…

— Aristotle