Elites Quotes · Page 3

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much…

— Tom Robbins

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

— Carly Fiorina

I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is…

— Jeff Sessions

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

— Albert Einstein

I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite…

— Dwight Freeney

Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so…

— Shane Mosley

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite…

— Stefan Molyneux

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure…

— Sheldon Richman

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might…

— John Holdren

Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that…

— Nawal El Saadawi

In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect…

— Elif Safak

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to…

— Peter Greenaway

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set…

— Franklin Foer

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,…

— Michael Parenti

The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as…

— Tariq Ali

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the…

— William E. Jenner

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private…

— Carroll Quigley

If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then…

— Tariq Ali

Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core,…

— Van Jones

The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They…

— Samuel P. Huntington

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and…

— Noam Chomsky

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

— Kellyanne Conway

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government...

— David Rockefeller

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic…

— Jim Hightower

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

— Thomas Piketty

A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

— Owen Jones

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

— Pat Buchanan

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we…

— Troy King

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

— Janet Morris

You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps…

— Ann Coulter

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

— Mo Ibrahim

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

— Gloria Reuben

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the…

— Gore Vidal

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this…

— David Letterman

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

— Stephen Kinzer