Quotes About Elite

Their strategy was to make clients feel accepted into a private club, as if a Morgan account were a membership card to the aristocracy.

He was the Praetorian Guard, and they were the great gentlemen.

If men uphold reason, they will be led, ultimately, to conclude that men should deal with one another as free agents, settling their disputes by an appeal to the mind, i.e., by a process of voluntary, rational persuasion. If men reject reason, they will be led, ultimately, to conclude the opposite: that men have no way to deal with one another at all—no way except physical force, wielded by an elite endowed with an allegedly superior, mystic means of cognition.

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.

The speed with which Anne Sexton found acceptance within the cadre of the literary elite was indeed remarkable, but it belied the work required.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Abnormal – nonsense. Suggests a norm, which is a tag placed on those who don't conform to an elite's view of itself.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.

The really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power.

Se accedere al senso più nobile delle cose era una faccenda di determinazione, allora accedere al senso delle cose diventava quasi un privilegio riservato alla borghesia. Perfetto.

to be an elite warrior was to strike savagely, without hesitation or second-guessing. No queasiness over hurting an opponent, no mercy, and no stopping to congratulate oneself. Nothing but focus, speed, confidence, and savage intent.

Only the best!

The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the honor.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Policymakers have demonstrated a predilection for giving the greatest amount of deference to state and other elite actors, rather than to their users. Increased complexity has led to a greater propensity for inconsistency and error, as the following chapters illustrate. This, combined with ever-increasing scale, has created a crisis of legitimacy and, for many individuals for whom these platforms constitute a vital tool, an untenable situation.