Elites Quotes - Page 23

• Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

  Sarah Palin

  Media, Political, Unqualified

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Empowerment, Black, Majority

  "Tutu says Mbeki enriching few at expense of poor" by Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2004.

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• People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Marine, College

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• Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

  George Will

  Political, Mediocrity, Politics

  "Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality". Book by Vince Stone, 2009.

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• The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Ideas, People

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• Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

  Susan Sontag

  Mass Culture, Age, Matter

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Progress, Genius

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

  Ron Paul

  Reality, People, Perception

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• You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Keys, Helping

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• Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Belief

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, People

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

  Robert Payne

  Military, Oligarchy, Wealth

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• I'm a constitutional conservative. I'm a Reagan constitutional conservative. I can think of no three better words to describe my political philosophy. And I will remain a Reagan constitutional conservative. It doesn't matter to what the elites D.C. think in the Republican or the Democratic Party

  Bobby Jindal

  Philosophy, Party, Thinking

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

  John Ridley

  Men, People, Hollywood

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

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• (T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Communication, America

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• Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody, I would hope that the top count against me would be homicide, not hypocrisy. Liberal elites ' particularly in Hollywood ' believe that hypocrisy is the gravest sin in the world, which is why they advocate their own lifestyles for the entire world: Sleep with whomever you want, listen to your own instincts, be true to yourself, blah, blah, blah. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Believe, Sleep, Hypocrisy

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• When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Justice, Ordinary, Done

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• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Reflection, Quality, Television

  Rupert Murdoch's address to the Edinburgh Television Festival, 1989.

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• Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or "in" group.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, May, Groups

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.66, Counterpoint Press

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• Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Dirty, Hatred

  "Ann Coulter on the Harriet Miers Nomination". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2005.

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• A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Girl, Art, Writing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Definitions, Interest

  "The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

  Susan George

  America, Wealth, Investment

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• Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life.

  Sean Hannity

  Islamic, Media, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who make dangerous arguments. Some powerful members of the cultural elites in our country are so paralyzed by the fear that theistic notions might reassert themselves in the official activities of government that they will go to Gestapo lengths to inhibit such expression.

  Henry Hyde

  Christian, Country, Religious

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