Oligarch Quotes
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
Yuri Milner -
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
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It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
Vladimir Potanin -
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
Bernard Crick -
Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
Eugene Shvidler