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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

Albert Einstein
oligarchy information political

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.

Aristotle
oligarchy democracy government
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted... by Aristotle

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Aristotle
oligarchy democracy weak

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?

Bernie Sanders
oligarchy political class
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy. by Che Guevara

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Che Guevara
oligarchy financial democracy

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.

Che Guevara
oligarchy eras hands

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

Che Guevara
ku-klux-klan oligarchy democracy

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

Chris Hayes
oligarchy able way
Who says meritocracy says oligarchy. by Chris Hayes

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

Chris Hayes
meritocracy oligarchy

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

David Crosby
oligarchy dictatorship communism

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Henry A. Wallace
cartels oligarchy government

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.

Henry James Sumner Maine
oligarchy trust doubt

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

Helen Keller
oligarchy business self
The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democra... by Jane Mayer

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

Jane Mayer
oligarchy democracy moving

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.

Jason Mraz
oligarchy vote citizens
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. by Pat Robertson

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

Pat Robertson
oligarchy tyrants tyranny

The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Robert Payne
oligarchy wealth military

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

Samuel P. Huntington
oligarchy majority-rule democracy
All systems are oligarchy. There is no other. by Tom Metzger

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

Tom Metzger
oligarchy

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin
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