Elites Quotes · Page 5

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

— Richard Holbrooke

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

— Joseph Campbell

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

— Petra Kelly

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

— Marc Benioff

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

— Gary W. Keller

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do…

— Thomas Friedman

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

— David Rockefeller

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

— James Bryant Conant

The American people, I think, are tired of being told. They're tired of being told this is as good as it gets.…

— Mike Pence

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the…

— Randall Kennedy

Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell…

— Mark Rippetoe

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a…

— Oscar Peterson

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as…

— Ted Cruz

Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and…

— Jill Stein

I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the…

— Noam Chomsky

[Donald] Trump, I think, understands it. He has said this is going to be a new Republican Party, a workers' Republican Party,…

— Jeff Sessions

The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite…

— L. Fletcher Prouty

You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass…

— Wynton Marsalis

Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially…

— Philip Jenkins

Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the…

— Nigel Gibson

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is…

— Ai Weiwei

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...…

— Ronald Reagan

I had a period in my life, maybe a decade or so, in which I was involved in that kind of thing,…

— Mark Helprin

Only the out of touch media elites think the biggest problems facing America - you know this, this is what they talk…

— Donald Trump

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite…

— George Sarton

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

— John Ralston Saul

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.

— Joe Rogan

DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

— Banachek

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

— Charles de Gaulle

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

— William S. Lind

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

— David Icke

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out…

— Cal Thomas

Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is…

— Lynn Jennings

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say…

— Robert Brustein

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

— Dan Quayle

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

— Jeff Sharlet

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics…

— Vladimir Putin

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

— George W Bush