Quotes and Sayings About Oligarchy
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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.
-- Che Guevara -
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
-- Che Guevara -
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
-- Chris Hayes -
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.
-- Helen Keller -
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
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 -
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 -
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.
-- Samuel P. Huntington -
All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.
-- Tom Metzger -
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
-- Robert Payne
