Best Elite Qoutes
328 Elite quotes by 269 unique authors
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
— Desmond Tutu
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community,…
— J C Watts
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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
— George Will
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For…
— Noam Chomsky
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I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have…
— Lynne Truss
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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
— David Rockefeller
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The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street…
— Naomi Klein
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He shrugged. "The same as any other. It's a way to make people feel better about themselves. Everyone likes feeling special. Being part of an…
— Richelle Mead
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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his…
— Neal Stephenson
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When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.
— Lisi Harrison
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We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected…
— David Rockefeller
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who…
— Thomas Pynchon
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God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the…
— William S. Burroughs
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The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for…
— Howard Zinn
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An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps
— Kathy Reichs
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Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was…
— Cassandra Clare
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