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• Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Needs, Whim

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• The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!

  Johan Galtung

  Book, Impact, Empowering

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• 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.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Agency, Events, Photographer

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• Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Commitment, Names, Office

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.42, Penguin

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• These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

  Howard Zinn

  Fall, Class, People

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.563, Pan Macmillan

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• I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.

  Russell Brand

  Running, Powerful, Party

  "Russell Brand: Democracy is pointless" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. June 04, 2012.

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

  Michael Pare

  Guiding Principles, Political, Ruling

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• Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Kings, Technology, Agency

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• The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

  Newt Gingrich

  Islam, Way, Serious

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• If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

  Pentti Linkola

  Sacrifice, People, Buttons

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• The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

  Tammy Bruce

  Children, Way, Manipulation

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.195, Crown Forum

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• It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

  David Attenborough

  Home, Years, Space

  "Humans are plague on Earth". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

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• It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Baby, Reality, Vegetarianism

  "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.

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• Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

  Jacquie Phelan

  Cycling, People, Mountain

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Culture, Lifestyle

  "Hillary's Self-Serving “Stand by Your Man” Advice". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 25, 2013.

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• Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

  Sarah Schulman

  Real, White, People

  Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

  Kevin Kelly

  Football, Thinking, People

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• We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price

  Victor Suarez Melendez

  Class, Ideas, People

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• Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, People, May

  "Clinton warns Pakistan to make the rich pay". tribune.com.pk. September 30, 2010.

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• Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Country, School, Play

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  Dana Spiotta

  Giving Up, Wall, Mean

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• It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life and instead represents the views of the ordinary people who are our readers and who don't have a voice in today's political landscape and are too often ignored by today's ruling elite.

  Paul Dacre

  Voice, Views, People

  "Why is the left obsessed by the Daily Mail?". www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  Linda Chavez

  Tolerance, Population, Literature

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