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.    From LearnThat.org.  [Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755), French lawyer and political philosopher.]

The big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

One of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few" and "rule".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Picture] Reference

The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few" (ὀλίγios olígios) and "rule" (ἄρχeiv arkhein).    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Farrington's Blog] Reference

And what manner of government do you term oligarchy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference

We know that the Latin American oligarchy will never support any really revolutionary movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [26 JULY CELEBRATION] Reference

These are features which are similar to a Latin American oligarchy --- a so-called banana republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Empire is Failing �� A Good Thing for America and the World] Reference

Therefore, an oligarchy is actually a form of shared dictatorship in which the people have a limited role in the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

The ugliest face of the Latin American oligarchy is now standing alone against the world, showing its contempt for democracy and for its own people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: The Other 9/11 Has Returned to Stalk Latin America] Reference

He suggested that Venezuela's "oligarchy" - wealthy power brokers who oppose his socialist government - could have been behind the attack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

The word oligarchy is from the Greek words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drudge Retort] Reference

Now they are billionaires, and known as the oligarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commanding Heights] Reference

It is also known as oligarchy, which means the rule of a few over the many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faultline USA] Reference

But the nobles abused their power by making an oligarchy, which is a perverted aristocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

This shows that that oligarchy, which is based on cannon and piles of gold, is worried, uncertain, and frightened of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO SPEECH CLOSING CULTURAL CONGRESS] Reference

They mean to carry out their system of 'oligarchy' at whatever cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

America is an "oligarchy" (to use a fancy word); it's a Dictatorship of the Rich -- and always has been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Bush pulled the bow so far back that he's finally loosened the arrow of American Socialism?] Reference

Aristotle himself couldn't find a better definition of "oligarchy" than what we have in the Kremlin today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Picture Thinking and Democracy in Russia] Reference

The hatred, the consumerism, that oligarchy which is now down on its knees are the ones who will lose a television channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2007] Reference

He stated that Garzon came paid by the "oligarchy" and that he did not have the courage to name the names he was paid for to name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chavismo goes bonkers over Spain, and judge Garzon] Reference

Obama is trying to make our democracy function as a democracy, rather than as some kind of oligarchy of corporate power and its lackeys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quote Of The Day] Reference

(Eleven percent of Democrats answered "oligarchy" on that question.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

But if we are to have any kind of oligarchy, let it be irrational oligarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heretics] Reference

I've heard the term "oligarchy" tossed around to describe the current government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crooks and Liars] Reference

This Congress believes they are an "oligarchy," separate from the rest of us peons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Record-Courier - Top Stories] Reference

Otherwise you are just using "oligarchy" to pretend you are above conspiracy theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

That is how we avoid serfdom in favor of a corrupt, anti-American zionist "oligarchy".    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

King is a cipher; his only function being to name the oligarchy which is to govern her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

The fancy word is "oligarchy", but in ordinary language, it's a Dictatorship of the Rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference

Fed X., this is nonesense. the "oligarchy" (whoever they are at the time) has always run america - BY DESIGN.    From Wordnik.com.  [tdaxp] Reference

In the first place, her King is a cypher; his only function being to name the oligarchy which is to govern her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

The Khameini-Ahmadinejad "oligarchy" represses and imprisons and rapes and tortures and murders its own citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

Isn't that called oligarchy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer Nix: A Little Sunlight Please: The Super-Delegate Transparency Project] Reference

The oligarchy is the one that loses.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2007] Reference

"The new Chavez 'oligarchy' appears, for the time being, to be loyal to their leader ... but they are prepared to replace him.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Hugo conveys the impression of being a compulsive liar, capable of lying, even where there is no necessity!] Reference

What kind of post-oligarchy television could be acceptable for Georgia?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Nobody Will Ever Forbid Criticism'] Reference

He foolishly tried to take on the army, the oligarchy and the church all at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haiti: 'We Could Turn Our Back'] Reference

In learning about democracy vs. fascism, one-man-one-vote vs. oligarchy, we became idealistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Much For Civics Class] Reference

They share his distrust of the Mexican oligarchy and his desire for a freer, more vibrant economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [How It All Went South] Reference

In fact, argues Kremlin-connected analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, "Russia is much more of an oligarchy now than under Yeltsin.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Under A Quiet Surface] Reference

Still, Putin's new oligarchy, emboldened by its own sense of power, is united, at least, on one thing: that this power must be maintained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under A Quiet Surface] Reference