“ A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy. A.E. Samaan
“ Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It'… Jorge Ramos
“ There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. Howard Zinn
“ 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
“ The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it. Owen Jones
“ The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. Bell Hooks
“ There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms--perversions, as it were, of them. The constitutions are monarchy, aristocracy, and thirdly that which is based on a prope… Aristotle
“ The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying. Kenneth Eade
“ So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with t… Aleister Crowley
“ 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
“ On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machi… Kenneth Eade
“ In the room of holding out an example for imitation, [the nobility] give only a warning to the lower classes of the people, who are taught to despise the boasted pre-eminence of birth, when attached t… Eliza Parsons
“ Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the mind must be attached to an empty sound, when every day's experience proves that birth is disgraced,… Eliza Parsons
“ 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 Stat… S. Brian Willson
“ By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished,… Eliza Parsons
“ The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or… M.B. Dallocchio
