Quotes About Elite

Progressives have a whole cultural contingent—Hollywood, the mainline media, the elite universities, even professional comedians—to peddle their propaganda. From the television show Madame Secretary to the front page of the New York Times to nightly quips by Stephen Colbert, the progressive bilge comes at us continually and relentlessly.

I only work with the best.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

Now there is nothing. Nothing except the systematic looting of the nation's assets by a rapacious, self-appointed elite.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

She thought only men of property and talent should hold positions in government and once elected they should be allowed to rule with a minimum of popular interference. ..They cast off their old habits of frugality and tried to rise above social position as well - a double sin.

Modern dictators tend to weary of their citizens, which is why they create royal guards and other elite security units to ensure their personal safety. A fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try settle people down, fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins their foot soldiers have the will and fighting power to strike first.

Jefferson said men are naturally divided by temperament into two classes. Those who fear and distrust ordinary people, and want to concentrate power in the hands of a small, select elite—and those who trust and cherish ordinary people, and think of them as the safest, if not always the wisest repositories of power.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

Only a few got to indulge in the pretence that they were part of a Roman elite.

the extreme wealth of the elite depended on the aggressive exploitation of the majority of the population, who are for the most part absent from the archaeological and written records.

These companies reap huge profits, a few local elite business owners benefit from the improved infrastructure, and everyone else suffers because funds are diverted from health services, education, and other public sectors to pay interest on the loans. The debts are so large they can't be repaid. The lower-income countries default on their loans. This process is sometimes referred to as debt-trap diplomacy.

While the elite of the Interdependency were making their plans to abandon the common people to their fate, the common people of the Interdependency were beginning to come to grips with what, exactly, that fate actually was.

A rake, at the time, was a very specific kind of man: an elite sexual predator.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

And a short nod of respect is in order, because it's harder to become a Navy SEAL than it is to get into Harvard Law School. Different, but harder.

Axe was holding the tribesmen off, leaning calmly on a rock, firing up the hill, the very picture of an elite warrior in combat. No panic, rock steady, firing accurately, conserving his ammunition, missing nothing.

The Warrior Elite,

the elite of our people" had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society. He used the pseudonym

The feminist project is basically an anarchist movement which does not want to replace one (male) power elite by another (female) power elite, but which wants to build up a non-hierarchical, non-centralised society where no elite lives of exploitation and dominance over others.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.