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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle.

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

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy — William O. Douglas

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle.

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

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country. — Bernie Sanders

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton

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

Money has replaced the vote. — Chris Hedges

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. — Eric Hoffer

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

We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy. — Kenneth Eade

He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy. — Aristotle.

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. — Heather Marsh

The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists' puppets. — C.S. Lewis

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other. — Tom Metzger

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy. — A.E. Samaan

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. — Bell Hooks

We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy. — Ernesto Che Guevara

Big government = oligarchy.
Simple equation.
Big government = loss of representation. — A.E. Samaan

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy. — Che Guevara

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

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. — George Orwell

Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy. — Theodor Mommsen

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

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying. — Kenneth Eade

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

America today is less a democracy and more an oligarchy, — Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

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