Quotes About Elitism

Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously

Don't say anything against indies. They're very sensitive. One hint of elitism and they'll be organizing a twitcott.

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.

without any actual aristocracy in America, the best those who wanted to be upper class could do was create systems of exclusivity and codes of conduct.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

All these texts tried in one way or another to explain the strange uniformity of the American businessman. He commuted to work in his immaculate gray suit from his neat suburban tract house. He kept his front lawn and his hair trimmed to lengths tacitly agreed upon by his peers. He avoided high culture, or anything else that smacked of elitism. He worked for some enormous gray corporation such as IBM or AT&T that was more of a home to him than his house in the suburbs.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Estamos frente a una nueva aristocracia del dinero organizado que, a diferencia de anteriores grupos dominantes, oculta tanto sus riquezas como sus hábitos, interesándole solo el prestigio de sus marcas y sus empresas.

Academics, think-tank executives, scientists, and high-level bureaucrats, as well as well-educated managers of major companies and their technical staff, are naturally attracted to the idea of a society ruled by professional experts with "enlightened" values—that is, by people much like themselves.10 This

all those who get their livelihood by people of fashion, contract as much insolence to the rest of mankind, as if they really belonged to that rank themselves.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The building was built to appeal to snobs

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

'Boom Bang a Bang' was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didn't relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didn't want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.