Elites Quotes

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

— Henry Giroux

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

— Cornel West

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

— Aaron Sorkin

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

— Noam Chomsky

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

— Tim LaHaye

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.

— Al Dubin

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

— Lucinda Williams

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the…

— Tariq Ali

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

— Margaret Halsey

A crusader impulse is deeply wired into liberal democracies, especially their elites.

— John Mearsheimer

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

— Noam Chomsky

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

— Noam Chomsky

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

— William Pfaff

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

— Jill Stein

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

— Rush Limbaugh

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the…

— Leisel Jones

These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the…

— Howard Zinn

What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets…

— Stacey Dash

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and…

— Russell Brand

In the words of Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice, we have a choice between a democracy or vast concentrations of wealth.…

— Jill Stein

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name –…

— Steven Rattner

If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that…

— Al-Ghazali

As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more…

— George Will

The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime…

— George Gilder

More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's the election of Donald Trump, or…

— Marine Le Pen

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy…

— Robert O. Paxton

The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom…

— Ronald Reagan

There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that…

— Bernard Goldberg

Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the…

— Garry Kasparov

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to…

— Chris Hedges

“We believe some people are more special, more beautiful, more capable, more influential, more intelligent, more gifted, and have a greater capacity…

— John Lewis

“The first problem with the word “diversity” is the word itself. Who is diverse in relation to whom? The way diversity is…

— Louis Yako

“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from…

— Aditya Chakrabortty

“Political correctness was never supposed to happen. Ever. The problem with politically correct language is already in the term itself: it corrects…

— Louis Yako

“Many DEI trainings and narratives have indeed enabled or produced types of people who seem to be looking for excuses to be…

— Louis Yako

“Being an elite is not a mere possession or something "within" an actor (skills, talents, and human capital); it is an embodied…

— Shamus Rahman Khan

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings…

— C. Wright Mills

“The processes of corporate power do not work in isolation. The economic and legal mechanisms that allow the privatization of the commonwealth,…

— George Draffan