Oligarchy Quotes
Oligarchy Quote of the day
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.
The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.
The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.
We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.