Elites Quotes - Page 27

• So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense that these could live forever. I was just starting to get my head around the democratic aspect of art; I didn't want to make rarefied things that were either alienatingly obscure or elite and art-worldy, so a recording that anyone could buy was a great medium.

  Miranda July

  Art, Forever, Landscape

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.

  Ross Garnaut

  Powerful, Taken, Ignorance

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• Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

  Jim Brown

  Want, Action, Achieve

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• Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Hands, People

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• There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

  Noam Chomsky

  Acceptance, Government, Rejection

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• Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.

  Thom Hartmann

  Friday, Fighting, Reality

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• What chance of survival does a culture have
  when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

  William S. Lind

  Survival, Culture, Politics

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• Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

  Daron Acemoglu

  Opportunity, Rights, Economic

  Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson (2012). “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty”, p.75, Profile Books

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• The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.

  L. Fletcher Prouty

  Powerful, Past, Roots

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• I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

  Adam McKay

  Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There`s a division in most major police departments called, `Special Victims Unit,` which is what sex crimes are euphemistically called. They`re considered the most heinous crimes, when not only do you violate somebody, but you violate them sexually. So it`s an elite squad that takes care of that.

  Richard Belzer

  Sex, Squad, Police

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• Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries.

  Ron Paul

  Senior, Country, Airports

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• In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

  Ron Silver

  Art, Europe, People

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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  The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

  William Halsey

  Country, New York, Military

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• The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Running, Army, Ncos

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

  Elka Graham

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

  Shannon Miller

  Attitude, Gymnastics, Being Positive

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• Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Creativity, Study, Distraction

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• Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Political, Economics

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Money, Community, Decision

  Noam Chomsky (1990). “On Power and Ideology”, p.6, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Mean, Fire, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While GOP elites say they`re shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump`s religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Party, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's disgust with what people called a broken political system, and they're really angry at elites, whether it's the Republican establishment or particularly the media who they feel look down on them, tell them they're bigots.

  Mara Liasson

  Media, People, Broken

  Source: www.npr.org

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