Definitions of 'oligarchy'

Definitions of 'oligarchy'

1. (noun) oligarchy a political system governed by a few people

"The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight." - Michael Lind - To Have and to Have Not

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy": Charles de Montesquieu

"Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.": Aristotle quotes - Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC

"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.": Albert Einstein - Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955