Quotes Tagged With :oligarchy

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....

On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its....

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

In the room of holding out an example for imitation, [the nobility] give only a warning to the lower....

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

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

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

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight....

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