Quotes About Plutocracy

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Dean Cavanagh

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

Sinclair Lewis

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Ralph Nader

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Graham Joyce

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

Suzy Kassem

#17. 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

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

Bill Moyers

#19. 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

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

Rutherford B. Hayes

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

William Graham Sumner

#22. 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

#23. I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.

Russell Brand

#24. Love with a peaceful mind and bring peace with the power of love.

Debasish Mridha

#25. 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

#26. I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#27. 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

#28. Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#29. If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time! - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

Darren Shan

#30. Dear Papa, it seemed, had not left his family in affluent circumstances; but he had certainly endowed them with good looks, a commodity in which they had been bred from earliest youth to trade to the best advantage.

Georgette Heyer

#31. The only good thing about age is that sooner or later all of the SOBs who dumped you are going to die.

Joan Rivers

#32. child birthing to women is like what battles are to men.

Sarah Tucker

#33. I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

Robert Wilson

#34. 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

#35. Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Roman Polanski

#36. The words of the Lord are found in the scriptures and the teachings of the apostles and prophets. They provide us counsel and direction that, when followed, will act like a spiritual life jacket and will help us know how to hold on with both hands.

M. Russell Ballard

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

Alice Walker

#38. Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

Robert W. Sarnoff

#39. 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

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

Ron Suskind

#41. 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

#42. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

Nenia Campbell