I'm not an elitist, but the idea that we have this society…

The art house is an elitist idea.

— Zal Batmanglij

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was…

— Anthony Horowitz

We live in a society where not everybody has intelligence, or understanding or is thinking of what's right and what's wrong.

— Zaza Pachulia

It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody…

— Barack Obama

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

— John Henrik Clarke

So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I…

— Bill Maher

It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying…

— Cynthia Nixon

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and…

— Noam Chomsky

“The point is that in society everybody must answer the question of what he is—as distinct from the question of who he is—”

— Walter Benjamin

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that…

— Isaac Asimov

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious…

— H.L. Mencken

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

— Richard Attenborough

If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have…

— Jim Woodring