Oligarchy quotes
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy."
"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."
"Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan."
"A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy."
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"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."
"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."
