Quotes About Elite

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Wenn eine Gesellschaft vor ihrer literarischen Kultur keine Achtung mehr hat, wenn die Achtung nicht so beschaffen ist, daß sie es als achtenswert empfindet, über diese Kultur einigermaßen Bescheid zu wissen, wenn sie also das unaufhebbare Nichtbescheidwissen der Mehrheit - ihre Unbildung - nicht mehr als bedauerlichen Mangel empfindet, der nur durch die Bildung einer kulturellen Elite kompensiert werden kann, dann ist nichts mehr zu machen.

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

the most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.

To have the opportunity to play for the best club in the world gives you the opportunity to play against the best players in the world.

I love competition and people who are elite at what they do, and I'm a huge Cleveland Cavaliers and Buffalo Bills fan.

Chelsea is one of the most important clubs in the most important championship in Europe.

I like competing against the very best.

People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

First: modern society, with its millions, is essentially ungovernable. The public must instead be controlled by manipulation. The men who do this manipulating, in government or not, are the true leaders, philosopher-kings. They need not manipulate all the people, only the few thousand who set the agenda. The drivers of history are not the people, in other words, nor the elite who influence the people, but the PR men who influence the elite who influence the people.

However, in a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active, and well-financed minority could create a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible.

Pero entonces siempre hay una excusa para que la élite tenga sus privilegios especiales.

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?