elite dominance Quotes

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

America’s super-elite has been particularly effective at using the tools of a political democracy to protect its minority privilege.

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

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.

Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.

If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.

Contrary to right-wing mythology, the press was not an institution dominated by leftists but a creature of the very richest of the rich and mightiest of the mighty in American society.... While the press shaped mass opinion, it reflected elite opinion.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

After so many years now, it's just suspected by most people that there simply is no way to change the direction Washington's going or the country's going or to do anything about that small group of establishment elitists in both parties that end up running things for themselves.

For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

Whether the Bushes, or whoever they are, they always end up in the end with the money and the ability to really blow away anybody who dares challenge them.

All societies, including societies called democratic, are ruled by a minority.

Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

What I hope is that politics shouldn't be dominated by the pro-Chinese elite; it should be related to everyone's daily life.