Top Elitism Quotes

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of...

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s...

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas...

The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that...

Now you take dark Negroes like you, Mr. Griffin, and me, he went on. We're old Uncle Toms to our people, no matter how much education and morals we've got. No, you have to be almost a mulatto, have yo...

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.