Quotes about Elitism

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain
I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart. — Nirav Sanchaniya
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like eliti — Haruki Murakami
The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intelle — Kambiz Shabankare
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments — Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On s — H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat. — Esther M. Friesner, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, mor — Michel Foucault
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above — Glenn Greenwald
It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them. — Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. — Dan Rather
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disl — Criss Jami, Healology
Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist. — Gary Hopkins
She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, wher — Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments u — Virginia M. Axline, Dibs in Search of Self
The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"
To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yes — Gregory C. Carlson, Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You
...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a frie — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors som — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America