Plutocracy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Plutocracy.
Top Quotes
“Imperialism”
“Bourgeoisie”
“Billionaire”
“Social class”
“Exploitation”
“Corporations”
“Class conflict”
“Totalitarianism”
“Mainstream media”
“Nineteen Eighty-Four”
“Wikipedia: Plutocracy”
“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich–that is the democracy of capitalist society.”
“Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.”
“The stark reality is that we have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people. This threatens to make us a democracy in name only.”
“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.”
“When the rich and the poor have justice meted to them in our courts with an uneven hand, and the fact is made plain and comprehensible, it is felt to be an outrage and a betrayal of the spirit of our institutions.”
“I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
“The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.”
“I fear that we may be on the verge of becoming an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires control not just the economy, but the political life of this country. And that’s just something we’re going to have wrestle with.”