“If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy.” PeopleIfsGivingSelfInterestPowerfulDemocracyGiving UpPercentInstitutionsFulfillingProphecySelf Fulfilling ProphecyPlutocracy Author:Robert Reich
“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.” ShouldLittlesRealPoliticalPoliticsCausesPovertyPracticeEconomyDemocracyEconomicPromiseCapitalismUltimateDemocraticClimateTerrorismDoctrineOppressionIdeologyLiberalismConservatismBankruptcyPluralismOxymoronPlutocracy Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.” LongDemocracySubjectsHighestBlockAuctionsPlutocracy Author:Bill Moyers
“We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.” DemocracyPlutocracy Author:Ralph Nader
“But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.” Has BeensSocialDifferencesJusticeKnownDemocracyCitizensSocial JusticeInstitutionsFraudArrangementsPlutocracy Author:Bill Moyers