Quotes About Elitism

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Our virtuous system is already corrupt. Does anyone seriously think that cabinet ministers or captains of industry or powerful officials wait in the same lines as the rest of us?

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals -- for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

The common people?—pah. What are they to us? You and I, mein Freund, we are lords of the earth, the great ones, the major men, the makers of supreme fictions.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

If it's for everyone, it's not exclusive.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

Golf Club description:] Once it had enough members to sustain itself, it began the obligatory practice of excluding others.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Broke a.. ni...'s can't roll with me and even rich ni...'s can't get a hold of me.

The thing is, all the stuff that people hate about the art world, I love. I embrace all the elitism. I think it's hilarious. I love impenetrable art writing. I make fun of it, but I make fun of things I love. I don't hate the art world at all. I find it fascinating. It's a secret club; you have to learn the rules.

Everyone marveled--between courses at The Palm--at how out of touch Mittens was.

As many regular consumers of news can attest, this condescending elitism, a fundamental characteristic of progressivism, abounds in the attitude of journalists, and undoubtedly in the environment of newsrooms in all their platforms.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

as is curiously also the case with high-level politicians, top on-air personalities and print editorialists are never geniuses. They almost never say or write surprising things. They don't dazzle or amaze.

This is a short cut to knowing one another," he explained. "School and college and medical school first, please. Joiner and Vickery are from Groton and Harvard; I'm only from Andover and Yale, so they won't let me stay in the same room with them; but we can keep the door ajar and get some of the air from the high life, now and then.

The notion that "the best and the brightest" are better at governing than their less-credentialed fellow citizens is a myth born of meritocratic hubris.

environmentalists were "self-righteous, elitist, neo-Malthusians who call for slow growth or no growth . . . and who would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat, and rural blacks, to permanent poverty."61

Ted Kim was sadistically illustrating that she'd only gone to Princeton, she was not of Princeton.

There is nothing of democratic self-government in the "command" of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.

Certainly, it is importat to be polite, and nobody should think that using racial or ethnic slurs is acceptable. But political correctness has morphed from a desire to avoid needlessly offending people to a tool of the Left to marginalize and vilify resonable Americans who disagree with the elite liberal agenda.