Absolutely Quote by Timothy Noah

There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There's class and then there's the racial thing.

— Emma Weymouth

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but…

— Chris Hayes

That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids,…

— Ross Douthat

“The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth.”

— Alain de Botton

“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about”

— Edward St Aubyn

“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages,…

— Shamus Rahman Khan

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment,…

— Steven Pinker

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

— Anna Julia Cooper

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

— Miriam Margolyes

“Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. Of course everyone knows that class-prejudice exists, but at the same…

— George Orwell

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in…

— Walter Isaacson