Habits Quote by Thomas R. Martin

Why strive to be 'elite'? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can…

— Justine Musk

People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and…

— Justine Musk

It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

— John Ralston Saul

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

— Alfre Woodard

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

— James Bryant Conant

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

— James Bryant Conant

“Dear 2600: Please help me to learn how to become an elite one day. The first thing to learn is never to use the…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there…

— Thomas Friedman

The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward…

— Ross Douthat

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder…

— Thomas Friedman

What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously,…

— Henry Giroux