Democracy Quote by Zephyr Teachout

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or…

— Aristotle

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and…

— Bernie Sanders

You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all the policies…

— Henry Giroux

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to…

— Jimmy Carter

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

— Anne Applebaum

It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it would be…

— Zephyr Teachout

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling…

— Aristotle

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

— Tom Metzger

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy,…

— Aristotle

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy…

— Aristotle

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things…

— Robert A. Dahl

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned…

— Yanis Varoufakis