Elitism Quotes

Elitism Quote of the day

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

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

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

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

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

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

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.

Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

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

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

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

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

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

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

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

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

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

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

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

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