Ken Livingstone Quotes

America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

The masses are absolutely being manipulated by those in power.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

Power is seductive.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

The reason why the Democratic Party fell from grace is because they become nothing more than elitist. That was it. Goldman Sachs - that's who they were.