Oligarch Quotes

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. - Aristotle

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. - Henry A. Wallace

We are nearly that team that can deeply reform the country, rid it of clans and oligarchs and begin democratic reforms. - Yulia Tymoshenko

This market was behaving as if it were an oligarchy. Now our prices are going up and down. That was the intent of the law. - Frank Young

There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish. - Evita Per??n

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. - Charles De Montesquieu

The shift, by the Anglo-Dutch Liberals and their financier-oligarchical rivals and partners, away from emphasis on crown colonies to more or less global financier-oligarchical tyranny, is aptly reflected by a shift of emphasis to the essential predicates of imperialism (e.g., 'permanent regime-change' and 'permanent warfare') from the emphasis on the optional predicate of colonial territory. In both variants, emphasis upon colony, and emphasis on globalized financier-oligarchical power, the sovereign nation-state is the adversary which the imperialist must continually move to subvert and destroy. - Lyndon LaRouche

The main problem is the way in which media sources have been used by the oligarchs (influential businessmen) to press their views forward, their political interests. - Roy Allison