'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King Copy Share Image
“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. — David Zinczenko Copy Share Image
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Those who complain that it's lonely at the top never invite you up there to keep them company. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in… — Cicero Copy Share Image
“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“This use of ordinary people as the principal characters was fairly rare in science fiction when the book came out, and even… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can… — Johan Hakelius Copy Share Image
“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything." "You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children." "Stop… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, philosophy or intellectual activity in ancient China was distinguished from manual labor, and thus philosophical texts were not… — Hans-Georg Moeller Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Anyone who wants to be in power doesn't deserve it and anyone who deserves it doesn't want it.” — Jessica Marie Baumgartner Copy Share Image
In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Acid is not for every brain … Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
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