Elites Quotes - Page 29

• All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Sports, Congratulations

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• We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Leadership, Money, War

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• Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.

  Al Dubin

  Streets, Underworld, Forty

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• We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.

  Naomi Klein

  Media, Giving, Political

  "This Changes Everything". Book by Naomi Klein, 2014.

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  Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
  American political elite from the beginning.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Genius

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Religious, Europe, Political

  "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" by Jean Francois Revel in The American Enterprise Magazine (column "The View From Abroad"), December 2003.

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• Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

  Mark Rippetoe

  Training, Ceilings, Bars

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• The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.

  Bill Watterson

  Class, Ideas, People

  Source: www.dailydangle.ca

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• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Reality, Men, People

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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