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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
Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. -- Colin Powell
Only the elites despise earning money. -- Newt Gingrich
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger. -- Stephen Kinzer
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else. -- Pankaj Mishra
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. -- Thomas Sowell
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. -- Paul Harvey
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites. -- Hillary Clinton
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. -- Ken Auletta
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. -- Paul Wellstone
The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites. -- Alex Pareene
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up. -- Bill Moyers
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation. -- Tariq Ramadan
While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. -- Michelle Malkin
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. -- Maggie Gallagher
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. -- Maggie Gallagher
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. -- Henry Louis Gates
Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it. -- Preston Manning
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. -- Newt Gingrich
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. -- Camille Paglia
I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that. -- Bernard Goldberg
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems. -- Tariq Ramadan
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Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology. -- Jill Lepore
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy. -- Hugo Chavez
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
The case for government by elites is irrefutable. -- J. William Fulbright
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. -- Cornel West
In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites. -- Jean Francois Revel
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money. -- Hillary Clinton
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. -- William Pfaff
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction? -- William S. Lind
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest. -- Thomas Piketty
Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. -- Gloria Reuben
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start. -- Marc Benioff
There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them. -- Kellyanne Conway
The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. -- Michael Pare
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base. -- George W. Bush
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow. -- John Leo
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social. -- Rush Limbaugh
The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with. -- Martin Sorrell
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease. -- Richard Holbrooke
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. -- Mo Ibrahim
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation. -- Maggie Gallagher
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
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained. -- Vladimir Putin
In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out. -- Pankaj Mishra
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists. -- Eric Schlosser
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites. -- Pankaj Mishra
Well, I don't think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game. -- Jack Abramoff
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
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism. -- Linda Chavez
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry. -- Al Gore
The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. -- Ron Paul
Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. -- Hannah Arendt
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites ... -- Cornel West
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power. -- Murray Rothbard
The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government. -- Chuck Schumer
When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution. -- Glenn Greenwald
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
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
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. -- Lee R. Raymond
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society. -- Jim Hightower
I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat. -- Jeff Sessions
In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists. -- Noam Chomsky
Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige. -- John Burroughs
The majority of Arab people would side with Russia and China, not with the West. And they'd throw their 'elites' groomed in and by the West, straight out the window. -- Andre Vltchek
The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s. -- Edmund Phelps
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient. -- Noam Chomsky
We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders, and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it. -- Michael Barone
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ. -- Harold Wallace Rosenthal
If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain? -- Glenn Greenwald
I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US. -- Christopher Michael Cillizza
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses. -- Bill James
The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world. -- Andre Vltchek
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction. -- Murray Bookchin
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. -- Pankaj Mishra
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric. -- Pankaj Mishra
Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life. -- Sean Hannity
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group. -- Seth Godin
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf. -- Pankaj Mishra
Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion. -- Jeffrey Tucker

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