14 Oligarchy Quotes for You to Enjoy

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Montesquieu

Democracy Dangerous Welfare Tyranny Citizen Prince Public Apathy Public Welfare Oligarchy

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. Jimmy Carter

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

Government Must Industrial Oppressive Form Tolerate Oligarchy Monopolies

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. Lysander Spooner

Government Character Too Criminal Arbitrary Most Oligarchy Slave

The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman. Finn Jones

Democracy People Power Politician Group Madman Some Small Throne Individual Small Group Heir Should Communities Oligarchy Elite

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. Pat Robertson

Home Democracy You Surrender Mistake Tyranny Made Thomas Thomas Jefferson Our About Know Terrible Erosion Warned Jefferson Oligarchy

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. Susan B. Anthony

Home Rebellion Mother Father Wife Sex Husband Nation Every Saxon Rules Carries Brothers Daughters Sons Over Household Makes Discord Sisters African Where Endured Which Race Might Oligarchy

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. W. E. B. Du Bois

Today War Man Problem Black Nation Before Those Degraded Civil Civil War Similar Colonial Colored Imperialism Had Cheap Raw Raw Material Like Souls Built Material South Tragedy Labor Greek America After Central Used Manufacture Whom Oligarchy Million Four Raising

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy. Alex Pareene

Political Believe Please Puppet Corrupt Begin American Establishment Anything Oligarchy

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country. Bernie Sanders

Will Country Citizens Seeing Toward Hillary Hillary Clinton Supreme Supreme Court Court Clinton End Overturn Movement Justices Who Prepared United Oligarchy

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort. Charlie Pierce

Myth Power Own Sense Nothing Our Sign Weakness Struggling Individuals Feeds Doctrine Effort Common Hold Commonwealth Even Oligarchy

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

Trust Sometimes Tyranny Doubt Ought Our Lodged No Doubt Mere Abuse Leave Authorities Regarded Us Engine Certainly Usurpation Oligarchy

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East. Tom Reiss

First France Top Ruling Carried East Out Invasion General Directory Instead Napoleon Became West Revolutionary Modern Egypt Middle Ordered Middle East Which Plan Organized England Oligarchy Early

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