Quotes About Oligarchs

#1. Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

Marcel Proust

#2. An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household ... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Susan B. Anthony

#3. As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.

Vladimir Putin

#4. This oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

Susan B. Anthony

#5. We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of these oligarchs and plutocrats who are trying to snatch the best of our democracy away?

Cornel West

#6. Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Dora Russell

#7. [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

Jeffrey Rosen

#8. The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

Gore Vidal

#9. If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

Naomi Wolf

#10. The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Cornel West

#12. 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

#13. Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

Charles Saatchi

#14. The convergence of desire is even more obvious at the top: all oligarchs have the same taste in Cristal, from Petersburg to Pyongyang.

Peter Thiel

#15. It wasn't until the first of us began killing ourselves in unusual ways - tearing off our own faces, gnawing off our own limbs - that the government took notice. But they waited until we started killing the oligarchs who created us before they acted. Typical.

Jason Heller

#16. Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

Scott Turow

#17. The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs - economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does.

S. Brian Willson

#19. Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

Francis Chan

#20. The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Anne Frank

#21. I think peas are really nasty. I liked them when I was younger, but I guess when you get older you have different taste buds.

Rico Rodriguez

#22. The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

Kenneth Eade

#23. Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

David Korten

#24. Perhaps, more than anything, it occurred to her that maybe she didn't have to spend the rest of eternity alone. One person could know, perhaps. One friend. Maybe. This strange human shed a ray of hope into her life.

India Drummond

#25. It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. Ian Kabra had charm, wealth, and stunning good looks. But he couldn't move one stubborn cow out of the middle of the road.

Clifford Riley

#27. Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

Kristin Cashore

#28. Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#29. They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn't the other way around - the thing gets more and more like its name.

Haruki Murakami

#30. In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. U.S. policies restrict feeding cow tissue directly to other cows, but still allow cows to be fed to other animals (like chickens) and the waste from the chickens to be fed back to the cows.

Barbara Kingsolver