Quotes About Elitism

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

My good creature," cried the Rocket in a very haughty tone of voice, "I see that you belong to the lower orders.  A person of my position is never useful.  We have certain accomplishments, and that is more than sufficient.  I have no sympathy myself with industry of any kind, least of all with such industries as you seem to recommend.  Indeed, I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

In addition to being antielitist, populists are always antipluralist. Populists claim that they, and they alone, represent the people.

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.

Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.

The administration officials were supposed to be "English gentlemen"—demobilized officers or university graduates. If a man had gone to private school, was an active sportsman, and looked good, he could probably get a job in the colonial service.

Sometimes it's the educated people that are the stupidest people.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

She moved with the confidence of privilege . .

politics is nothing more than a rich man's hobby.

home arts and folk arts revealed more about a culture than the isolated, esoteric pieces preserved in museums for the benefit of the elite. She was sick and tired of having her work dismissed as frivolous because it centered on a largely female occupation. If most quilts had been made by men, no one would question her interest in exploring the role of quiltmaking in American history.

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

the black elite here swan round in squadrons of the latest luxury SUVs, each of which is worth ten times this eccentric old thing.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

jeunesse dorée

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

What's going on for half the country? Who's lost out? The victims of elitist agenda; standing up for them, being a voice for them. That's the idea behind positive populism, that's what drives the content.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

The art house is an elitist idea.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.