Quotes About Elites

Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.

If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief that elites have access to superior information and their interests are interconnected with those of the broader public.

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Disaster myths are not politically neutral, but rather work systematically to the advantage of elites. Elites cling to the panic myth because to acknowledge the truth of the situation would lead to very different policy prescriptions than the ones currently in vogue.

Earlier disaster scholars tended to imagine that in natural disaster, all parties share common interests and goals, but contemporary sociologists see disasters as moments when subterranean conflicts emerge into the open. Tierney said, "Elites fear disruption of the social order, challenges to their legitimacy." Disasters provide both, lavishly.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

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

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

the neoliberal turn is in some way and to some degree associated with the restoration or reconstruction of the power of economic elites.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

They have become spoilers because in their view America's political elites, both Republican and Democrat, have grown together into an almost indiscernible "hybrid royalty" that offers them little to choose from in terms of how the nation is actually being governed.

What the "old establishment" or "corrupt, immoral elites" supposedly have always done, the populists will also end up doing—only, one would have thought, without guilt and with a supposedly democratic justification.

In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage their children to do just about anything else.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Don't we, the ordinary citizens of our country who are aware of the threat, realize the elites will take care of their own no matter what happens?

It's no wonder The Elites promulgate Darwinism. Convince people they are merely animals and you can treat them accordingly.

Formalism was a language made for and by elites, a way through which art history would be recorded. It never aspired to be a way through which the masses might encounter and enjoy art.

Repugnance at the power of the people, at the fact that the popular taste should rule in all arenas of life, is very rare in a modern democracy. One of the intellectual charms of Marxism is that it explains the injustice or philistinism of the people in such a way as to exculpate the people, who are said to be manipulated by corrupt elites.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.