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
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
“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.” — Steven Moore 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 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
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 like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea. — John Waters 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
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love… — Florence King 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
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered… — Jerry Springer 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher 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
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
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
“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
I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary. — George Saunders 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
“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
There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're… — W. Kamau Bell 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
“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
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
“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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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