Quotes About Elitism

The flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.

As they say in Washington, laws are for the little people.

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.

Elitism thus had a dark side, a fascination with noble death, with death not for low material ends—that was for the multitude and the merchants—but for fame, even immortality.

The advocates of republicanism proposed a blend of Machiavellian competence with Puritan notions of an "elect" to produce a new variant of elitism, actors as confident of their skills as of their rectitude.

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

I make fun of Mensa. I don't know a great deal about Mensa - that's the high IQ group - but I say, 'To get into Mensa, you have to have a high IQ, and once you get in, you spend your time congratulating people who are in Mensa with you.' To me that's a pretty stupid way to spend your life.

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

Abnormal professions attract two classes: those who are not good enough for ordinary bourgeois life and those who are too good for it. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

He regarded spats, walking sticks, caviar, titles, tea-drinking, poetry not daily syndicated in newspapers, and all foreigners, possibly excepting the British, as degenerate.

To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

The middlebrow, I hate.

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.

If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need and when we need it.

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

Charity is for the ruling class