Elites Quotes - Page 21

• Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Two, Acting

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, India, Able

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Cutting, America, One Direction

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• Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by necessity such as baskets and pottery, or artistic expression, such as more baskets and more pottery. Today, there is a much more leisurely attitude toward crafting, and virtually anyone without a job and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

  Amy Sedaris

  Jobs, Attitude, Skills

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• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  Samantha Power

  Country, War, Leader

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• Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

  Andre Rieu

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Political, Intellectual

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• Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

  Bobby Orr

  Opportunity, Should Have, Program

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Memories

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• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Politics, Vote

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  Vikas Swarup

  School, College, Doe

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• If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Zero, Believe, Average

  "'Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You': Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Ego, Politics, Welfare

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.23, Hoover Press

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• [The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.

  Michael Parenti

  Home, Class, People

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, School, Media

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.46, Creators Publishing

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• The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

  Sargent Shriver

  Men, Justice, Charity

  "The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation" by Edward Shorter, (p. 66), 2000.

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• The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

  Class, Redemption, Sophistry

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (1997). “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories”, Regnery Pub

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• We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

  Michael Barone

  Country, Ideas, Accomplishment

  "Spurning America" by Michael Barone, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2005.

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• The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

  Arnold Kling

  Clever, Thinking, Government

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• Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

  Oscar Peterson

  Musical, Age, Giants

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• An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Law, Class, Limits

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• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Thinking, Mirrors

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