Elitist Quotes - Page 2

• Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

  Richard Attenborough

  Art, People, Select

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• My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

  Rupert Murdoch

  New York, Worry, Challenges

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• The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

  Joshua Jackson

  Thinking, America, Destructive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

  Bunker Roy

  Motivation, Inspiration, India

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• Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

  Matthew Fox

  Beautiful, Pain, Illusion

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• Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

  Peter Kreeft

  Ideas, Persons

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• Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Adversity, Boys

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• Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Love, Fall, Passion

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• Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

  Camille Paglia

  America, Taste, Academic

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, People, Racist

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

  Harlan Ellison

  Voice, Ugly, Opinion

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• Pardon me, not to sound elitist, but I wanted to put something together that I would enjoy. I thought at that time, what satiated me, what interested me, what intrigued me, I thought other people would like also. And you blend that with some forward thinking of predicting the UFC and MMA were going to be ultimately as big as it became.

  Bill Goldberg

  Thinking, Mma, Ufc

  "Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris, 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
  pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
  a single death. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Suffering, Vegan

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• A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Ignorance, Physicians

  "Exeunt the Humanities". Essay by Jacques Barzun (1980) published in his book "The Culture We Deserve" (p. 117), 1989.

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• I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

  Greg Dulli

  Moving, School, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, talks about the deep hatred that some Americans had for what they consider to be elitist intellectual activity. I think that's what's happening now.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Book, Thinking, Hatred

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We've elected an untested prima donna, zero, zilch, nada experience, and it's coming home to roost, clear for one and all to see, and the guy thinks he's better and smarter than everybody else, is an aristocrat, an elitist, and is hell-bent on getting even with whatever he thinks the grievances of America have been in the past. Barack Obama equals politics of grievance. He has rallied an entire nation against him, and, believe me, it's a larger number of people than you would ever know, because the media of course is not portraying these numbers accurately.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Home, Past

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear "fashion" they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you're really successful in the truest sense.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Successful, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was once popular - and I still believe it can be - it has become very elitist and intellectual, but that certainly doesn't sell tickets. It's a struggle, but I've always embraced struggle and thrived off of it, so it's the way my life needs to go.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Struggle, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to ski, and my wife supports them and my wife has some issues. What, you just dismiss them? You just walk away? I don't walk away from anyone, Bill, in life! I'm sitting here and support people that are down and out! All these rich and elitist people, I'm sick of them! I'm sick of them! No, they're perfect. They don't do nothing! Get outta here! 'They don't do nothing!' They're the biggest crooks around!

  Rob Ford

  Daughter, Teaching, Kids

  "Reporter's notebook: In the heart of Ford Nation with Toronto's embattled mayor". Interview with Bill Weir, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.

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• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  Eric Pianka

  Real, Technology, Men

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• The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'

  Bill Maher

  Crazy, Kids, Gun

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• Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fashion, Past, Class

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• I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.

  Dennis Lehane

  Christian, Rain, Believe

  Dennis Lehane (2011). “A Drink Before The War”, p.166, Random House

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• Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Running, Spiritual, Ghetto

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