Errico Malatesta Quotes

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.

Nothing appears more surprising ... than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

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

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.

Government exists to protect the interests of the powerful from the will of the people.

The knowing minority had to impose its will on the majority, even by brute force. The great mass, the workers, are in economic slavery. They cannot accomplish their own liberation. Their minds are formed by their masters; they are incapable of understanding their true interests. It is left to the knowing minority to free the mass from the tutelage of its present masters. Only after this is done will the mass understand.

She had got to the bottom of this business of democratic government and found out that it was nothing more than government of any other kind.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

For America's elite there is never accountability. That is for the rest of us.

It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.