Tom Metzger Quotes

The Iron Law of Oligarchy: every field of human endeavor, every kind of organization, will always be led by a relatively small elite.

Rather than living in a democracy, we are living in a benevolent oligarchy.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.

No country can exist without a ruling class. The governing class in a America is a rank that is for sale.

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny.

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

When despotism has established itself for ages in a country, as in France, it is not in the person of the king only that it resides. It has the appearance of being so in show, and in nominal authority; but it is not so in practice and in fact. It has its standard everywhere. Every office and department has its despotism, founded upon custom and usage.

No way Putin will let anyone take away his power. Even if all the people of Russia voted for me.

Dictators don't come from elections.

The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government.