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Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.
Chris Hayes / Commentator
Meritocracy
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Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
Che Guevara / Revolutionary
Democracy
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
Pat Robertson / Author
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Tyrants
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A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
Aristotle / Philosopher
Democracy
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The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.
Jane Mayer / Journalist
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A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Henry A. Wallace / Former Vice President Of The United States
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There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
David Crosby / Guitarist
Communism
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Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
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Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
Alex Pareene /
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As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
Jason Mraz / Singer-Songwriter
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Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
Che Guevara / Revolutionary
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Ku Klux Klan
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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.
Montesquieu /
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If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.
Heather Cox Richardson /
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I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
Paul Craig Roberts / Economist
Deceived
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Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
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A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
Che Guevara / Revolutionary
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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
Aristotle / Philosopher
Government
Democracy
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Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Clinton
Oligarchy
Prepared
Supreme
Supreme Court
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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Overturn
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
Yulia Tymoshenko / Former Prime Minister Of Ukraine
Close Friends
Father
Fighting
Husband
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Ukrainian
Chose
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Never Complain
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Henry James Sumner Maine / Historian
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Abuse
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Mere
No Doubt
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Sometimes
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Usurpation
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The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.
Douglas Southall Freeman / Historian
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
Pat Robertson / Author
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Erosion
Mistake
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Surrender
Terrible
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Thomas
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We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
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Democracy
Ethical
Moral
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Standards
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Now
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American
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Instead
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Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
Helen Keller / Author
Business
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Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.
Samuel P. Huntington / Political Scientist
Democracy
Majority Rule
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer
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Class
Democracy
Giving
Mean
Obscure
Oligarchy
Submit
Tradition
Ancestors
Around
Dead
Classes
Happen
Merely
Refuses
Votes
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The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
Robert Payne / Novelist
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Wealth
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Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
Chris Hayes / Commentator
Able
Allies
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Climb
In Other Words
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Lower
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
Finn Jones / Actor
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Heir
Communities
Elite
Small Group
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When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
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Foes
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Numerous
Restored
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein / Theoretical Physicist
Information
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Political
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Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.
Paul Craig Roberts / Economist
Clinton
Credibility
Defeated
Despite
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Political Parties
Trump
Vicious
Agent
Political People Media
American People
Campaign
Donald
Donald Trump
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Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it.
Zephyr Teachout / Law Professor
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It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
Charlie Pierce /
Common
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Myth
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Weakness
Feeds
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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 / Women's Rights Activist
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Might
Mother
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Rules
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In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.
Tom Reiss / Author
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Egypt
England
France
Invasion
Middle East
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Ruling
West
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin / Revolutionary
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian
Civil War
Greek
Imperialism
Labor
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Tragedy
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Cheap
Civil
Colonial
Degraded
Manufacture
Material
Million
Raising
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Raw Material
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