Quotes of: Elites Keyword

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

The Young Elites

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.

Peter L. Berger

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

P. J. O'Rourke

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.

Maurice Greene

We will never have the elite smart people on our side.

Rick Santorum

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King

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.

Lee R. Raymond

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James Bryant Conant

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

Heather Brooke

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

John Berger

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Desmond Tutu

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

David Zinczenko

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Gloria Reuben

Tentente-Coronel Fábio: [about Nascimento] He think he is the cock of the universe.

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

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.

Paul Wellstone

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Adolf Galland

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

The Elite

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Elites and Masses

A blanket could be used as a duvet, in the fight against elitism. 

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Ben Hecht