Oligarch Quotes

#1. I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#2. Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?

Simon Kuper

#3. There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

Bernie Sanders

#4. I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Yuri Milner

#5. Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle.

#6. Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

Alexei Mordashov

#7. Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Aeschines

#8. If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead ... or a really effective oligarch.

Gary Shteyngart

#9. It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

Vladimir Potanin

#10. The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

Bernard Crick

#11. Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

#13. Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

William Shakespeare

#14. I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#15. Sirius stabbed moodily at a potato

J.K. Rowling

#16. Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. I always wanted to get fucked by a bad boy."
"Oh, that wasn't fuckin', babe. That was something else.

E.M. Abel

#18. The seventh John Smith had even conspired to have a conspiracy against himself in Argentina, with resulting civil war, so that the weapons could be tested under actual battle conditions--for the region had been overpopulated anyway.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#19. They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Anton Chekhov

#20. I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

Harrison Ford

#21. I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

David Crosby

#22. If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

Reggie Lewis

#23. Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

Jimmy Savile