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“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“There were two things, they told Doremus, that distinguished this prairie Demosthenes. He was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the pulpit. He would whirl arms, bang tables, glare from mad eyes, vomit Biblical wrath from a gaping mouth; but he would also coo like a nursing mother, beseech like an aching lover, and in between tricks would coldly and almost contemptuously jab his crowds with figures and facts - figures and facts that were inescapable even when, as often happened, they were entirely incorrect.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.

Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.

At once repugnant and oppressive.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as "Wotan's Mickey Mouse.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper class. Abendsen, he's wrong; there would be no social reform, no welfare public works plans - the Anglo-Saxon plutocrats wouldn't have permitted it.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.”
― Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

“The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...”
― George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty

“The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or killed. It’s not their children out there, blinded by manufactured patriotism or lured into the service with the promise of economic stability, all with the sanctimonious blessings of misguided public consent by way of corporate, state-sponsored media. It won’t be their children who are terrorized by Wahabbist insurgents tearing through city blocks and rural areas as only an ever-devouring plague could. It won’t be any of their loved ones watching thousands of years of civilization unraveling like an old sweater as each thread of wool is lit on fire or stolen to sell on the black market for greedy consumers with a fetish for hijacked Mesopotamian artifacts.”
― M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

“Mig angrer av mit hjertens grund
jeg bogen skulde lære
at jeg for alt det jeg har slitt
fik intet andet til profit
end umag og besvære.
Hvad har vi nu, fordi vi gik
vel 20 aars tid i skole,
Og mangt et slag i Haanden fik,
samt banket rygg og kjole?”
― Petter Dass