Elites Quotes - Page 26

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

Eugene Jarecki

Unions, Oppression, Antagonism

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

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Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

Eugene Jarecki

Country, Fall, Heart

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What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Russell Lynes

Art, Bourgeoisie, Social

Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

Florence King

Education, Children, Technology

Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

C. Wright Mills

Military, Power, Circles

C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers.

George Packer

Country, Government, Class

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When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

Steve Young

Athlete, Nfl, Special

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What is interesting to me, as I travel, is that exactly the same agenda is being implemented in every country I travel to. Because people from different countries don't talk to each other and the international media are being used to bring about the changes desired by the global elite, nobody realizes this.

David Icke

Country, Media, People

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Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

John Ralston Saul

Important, Quality, Citizens

John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

Chris Hardwick

Sports, Reality, Media

"Technology's gutterball - new gear makes bowling too easy" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

Jennifer Gilmore

Book, Knowing, Office

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I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

Troy King

Alabama, Death Penalty, Lost

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To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

Brock Chisholm

Family, Loyalty, Religious

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God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

David Berg

Space, Race, Cities

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It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

Naomi Klein

Science, Community, Political

Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

Ronald Reagan

Government, Self, Competition

Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books

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I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Thomas Kinkade

Art, New York, Thinking

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There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Mark Krikorian

Perception, Immigration, Gaps

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Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

David Letterman

Morning, New York, Pants

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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Alvin Ailey

Racism, Finding Yourself, Racist

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Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

David Letterman

Names, Iraq, Comedy

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It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.

Joe Rogan

Determination, Mma, Impossible

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Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.

Charles Woodson

Mean, Winning, Games

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We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

Ron Paul

Military, Needs, Said

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Derek Bok

Country, Cost, Maintaining

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