Graham Joyce Quotes

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

People say law but they mean wealth.

There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

In this country there is no rank but rank mutton.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Chile is still at the whim of powerful, traditional elites who sit as a higher societal authority than the elected government.

The great families have their privileges.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

It is no accident that in America today the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider than at any time since the Gilded Age. Now, as then, the titans are seeking an even greater political voice to match their economic power. Now, as then, the inevitable danger is that they will confuse their own self-interest with the common good.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The rich are hijacking American democracy.

As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

The House of Commons is full of fat and pompous plutocrats…Public schools are cradles of sickening snobbery.

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.