Quotes About Elites

how putting global concerns above national interests insidiously erodes the financial health, freedoms, and safety of Americans. In blunter terms, when American elites feel their first concerns are with the world community abroad rather than with the interests of their own countrymen, there are consequences for American citizens.

the central problem with global elites remains a sort of retrograde tribalism. For all the grand talk of being citizens of the world, they really owe their limited allegiances only to like kind—westernized elites with proper credentials—or rather, to the systems and fonts of their wealth and success. They are like the royal families of Europe before World War I, incestuously related and essentially more akin to each other than to their constituents.

Under a stakeholder economic model, businesses are not rewarded primarily based on economic metrics such as profit, loss, customer satisfaction, or the quality of a company's products and services. Instead, businesses are rated based on their commitment to social and environmental causes chosen by the elites themselves, often to their own benefit.

Ante el descontento social, las autoridad suelen tener dos opciones: apaciguar a la población con concesiones simbólicas o reforzar el control para reducir al mínimo el daño que eso pueda causar a sus intereses. Al parecer, las élites occidentales consideran que la segunda opción —fortalecer su poder— es el mejor procedimiento, acaso el único viable, para proteger su posición.

The important point for our purpose is that a peasantry—assuming that it has enough to meet its basic needs—will not automatically produce a surplus that elites might appropriate, but must be compelled to produce it.

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

Easily able to capture the lion's share of the aid that is given to their countries on the pretext that they are so poor, African elites have realised that there is wealth to be made from poverty.

Had Mrs. Woolf survived to our time, however, she would at least have had the satisfaction of observing that her cast of mind—shallow, dishonest, resentful, envious, snobbish, self-absorbed, trivial, philistine, and ultimately brutal—had triumphed among the elites of the Western world.

My views on wealth redistribution were shaped largely by knowledge elites who earned their living by words and ideas--professors, writers, and movement leaders. Like most of the broadminded clergy I knew, I reasoned out of modern naturalistic premises, employing biblical narratives narrowly and selectively as I found them useful politically. The saving Grace of God on the cross was not in my mix of life changing ideas.

I don't want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

there has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee.

And ever since then, every time popular movements have succeeded in dissolving power to a certain extent, there has been a deepening recognition amount elites in the west that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force you have to start to control what they think.

Nationalism and jingoism—essential corollaries of militarism—are also systemic imperatives because they divide the global working classes, and bind them to the elites oppressing them through the visceral cultural power of patriotism and nationalism.

No, it is intellectuals who call the shots, people with graduate degrees and careers in government, academia, law, and the professions.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites

For the well-heeled elites, the 90s and 00s were a non-stop party with no hangover: even after the financial crash, the fortunes of Britain's 1,000 richest families more than doubled.

Suppose that this reading of history is correct. Today's creative elites are not just overwhelmingly secular but often hostile to the idea that transcendental goods have any meaning. Such is the reason to fear that well-made entertainments are as much as we can hope for. Great art requires a source of inspiration that the people who produce those entertainments are not tapping.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Indeed, the long-standing establishment embrace of the Malthusian worry explodes any suggestion that anti-growth is a particularly radical position. But then elites have never really liked the vast bulk of humanity, believing us all to be lesser creatures, unlettered, unrefined.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

The elites sneer at commerce as tawdry, but it's what gives people what they want and need, and pays for everything else, including the luxury of art.

Moreover, liberals asserted, the church maintained unsanitary practices, such as interring the remains of pious elites in the walls and beneath the floors of cathedrals, and it was unalterably opposed to science, progress, and liberal political ideas, making free use of censorship and spiritual intimidation to uphold its dogmas