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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

Only the elites despise earning money.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Language does not make one an elite.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.

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

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

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 the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites.

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were being shared fairly.

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 are visionary elites.