Noun
A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThis combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. H. L. Mencken
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. Rutherford B. Hayes
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment. Wendell Berry
The US plutocracy has declared war on sustainable development. Jeffrey D. Sachs
Plutocracy is abhorrent to a republic; it is more despotic than monarchy, more heartless than aristocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in the hour of its calamity. William Jennings Bryan