Bend Quote by Winnie Byanyima

There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief…

— Richard Edelman

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

— Maggie Gallagher

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

— Noam Chomsky

Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they…

— Guy Standing

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

— Tulsi Gabbard

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

“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

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

— Lord Acton

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

— Michael Pare

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no…

— Adam Curtis

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