Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have… — Joshua Wong 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
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
“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
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
Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite,… — Dick Cavett 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
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 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
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
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
There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so… — Jesse Eisenberg 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
People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our… — Kanye West 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
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
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
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
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art… — Banksy 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
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
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in… — George W. Bush 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
“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
