Oligarchy

(noun.) a political system governed by a few people; 'one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy'; 'the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen'.

录入:莫伊拉

• Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And then, although they may have no desire of change, the others charge them with plotting against the people and being friends of oligarchy? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This, then, will be the first great defect of oligarchy? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And the insatiable desire of wealth and the neglect of all other things for the sake of money-getting was also the ruin of oligarchy? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The next form of government is oligarchy, in which the rule is of the rich only; nor is it difficult to see how such a State arises. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And does not tyranny spring from democracy in the same manner as democracy from oligarchy--I mean, after a sort? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Thus much of the origin,--let us next consider the evils of oligarchy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yes, he said; at any rate the individual out of whom he came is like the State out of which oligarchy came. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• For the majority in these semi-democratic times is often as not a cloak for the ruling oligarchy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Then oligarchy, or the form of government in which the rulers are elected for their wealth, may now be dismissed. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Almost every crusade leaves behind it a trail of yearning royalists; many good-government clubs are little would-be oligarchies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The evil is certainly not prevented there; for oligarchies have both the extremes of great wealth and utter poverty. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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