“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
I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first… — Alex Flinn 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
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“As long as art is understood and valued as an “absolute” activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“This style of teaching reflects the business community,” one fifth-grade teacher in a Manhattan public school told me, “where people’s respect for… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Jonestown was supposed to be a great socialist experiment, a place where all the evil "isms" would be eradicated: racism, sexism, elitism.… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live. Where's that? Well, in our nation's capital and New York… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges. — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by… — Alex Ross Copy Share Image
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I am an elitist and a perfectionist. Narcissist, no. You cannot both willfully ignore your flaws and try to eradicate them at… — Sebastyne Alpha Copy Share Image
Wine is my passion. I'm not keen on the snobbery or elitism of wine, that's not what it's about - I just… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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