Age Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think…

— David Frum

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

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

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all…

— Noam Chomsky

“fundamental to the concept of an elite is the idea that its members must merit their status in the judgment of others and that…

— Thomas R. Martin

“Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations—consciously or not—that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.”

— Howard Zinn

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

— William Pfaff

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

— Marine Le Pen

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

— Charles Krauthammer

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with…

— Cornel West

An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.

— Steve Bannon