49 Quotes About Oligarchy

L'esprit d'une nation réside toujours dans le petit nombre qui fait travailler le grand, est nourri par lui et le gouverne.

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 certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.

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

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

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

DEMOCRACY ALLOWS ONE TO RIG MINDS. THAT SPACE WAS UNENCROACHABLE IN MONARCHIES.THE DANCE OF DEMOCRACY

What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs—economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does.

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.