I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism. — Munira Mirza 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
“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.” — Steven Moore 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
“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
Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges. — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and… — John Ridley 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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 a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your… — Josephine Meckseper 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
“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
“What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage… — Sam Harris 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
“[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual… — Nancy MacLean 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
“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
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
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
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