Quotes Tagged With :oligarchy

Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the mind....

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they....

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government....

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world....

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's....

What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs—economic....

There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms--perversions, as it were,....

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

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