Quotes Tagged With :oligarch

The source of desire to be driven by power and spread of influence makes its owner dangerous to its privileges,....

The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads....

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often....

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally....

The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their....

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance....

Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical....