Plutocracy's Quotes

#1. The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Dean Cavanagh

#2. If you are taught how to love, your love is going to be false. Real love should be spontaneous. How can you be taught to love? If you are taught, then you will act accroding to those rules and the natural flow will not be there.

Osho

#3. Besides, the conflict is not really between royalty and democracy. It is between both and plutocracy, which, having destroyed the royal power by frank force under democratic pretexts, has bought and swallowed democracy.

Russell Kirk

#4. We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

Ralph Nader

#5. It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Peter Singer

#6. By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#7. Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

Irving Fisher

#8. The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Pema Chodron

#9. Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Sinclair Lewis

#10. Don't allow your feelings to drive the car; you're bound to get in an accident!(HS/el)

Evinda Lepins

#11. It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Edward Norton

#12. While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Horace Greeley

#13. The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

Wendell Berry

#14. Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Rick Pitino

#15. The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

Robert Payne

#16. We no longer have a government of, by, and for the people - representative democracy. We have government by plutocracy - the rule of the rich for the rich by the rich," Moyers

Thom Hartmann

#17. He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as Wotan's Mickey Mouse.

Sinclair Lewis

#18. 18Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.

Anonymous

#19. People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Jose Saramago

#20. Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.

Thomas Berry

#21. I love you, Axel Reid. I have loved you forever and I will never stop. Made for me, baby. You were made for me. Don't ever leave me. Never again.

Harper Sloan

#22. When I get finished with you, Lilenta, every male within a fifty mile radius will know you're mine." "So

Evangeline Anderson

#23. We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Ramsey Clark

#24. When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.

Suzy Kassem

#25. We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

John Calvin

#26. There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Zephyr Teachout

#27. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

Suzy Kassem

#28. I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.

Ron Suskind

#29. This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

H.L. Mencken

#30. 'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Graham Joyce

#31. After you have finished with the stone, the twigs and beetle, other things will suggest themselves, and you must take care of them. I see you are already tired. But you must stay. This is the pain of it all. You can't keep leaving.

Barry Lopez

#32. Part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Julius Lester

#33. Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Giuseppe Prezzolini

#34. On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.

Helene Wecker

#35. Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades ... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Greg Bear

#36. I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

John Thune

#37. The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which ... pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

J. F. C. Fuller

#38. Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

Bill Moyers

#39. There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#40. An inspired stroke of a pen can save or damn the world

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#41. Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Alice Walker

#42. Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#43. The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

William Graham Sumner

#44. Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.

H.L. Mencken