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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
— Aristotle.
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
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
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
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
— Che Guevara
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
— Polybius
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