Quotes about Elite

I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling. Votes: 4

Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate. Votes: 3

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one Votes: 3

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. Votes: 3

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. Votes: 3

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Votes: 3

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican. Votes: 3

Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right. Votes: 3

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. Votes: 3

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss. Votes: 3

"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.' Votes: 3

Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling. Votes: 3

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over. Votes: 3

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. Votes: 2

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. Votes: 2

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. Votes: 2

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. Votes: 2

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. Votes: 2

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be. Votes: 2

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. Votes: 2

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. Votes: 2

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Votes: 2

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? Votes: 2

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. Votes: 2

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. Votes: 2

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Votes: 2

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. Votes: 2

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation. Votes: 2

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Votes: 2

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. Votes: 2

I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. Votes: 2

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations. Votes: 2

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. Votes: 2

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. Votes: 2

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. Votes: 2

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. Votes: 2

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions. Votes: 2

Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club. Votes: 2

I'm an elite, recreational juggler. Votes: 0

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups. Votes: 0

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. Votes: 0

You stay elite by constantly moving forward. Votes: 0

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps Votes: 0

Everyone has the impulse to be elite. Votes: 0

Language does not make one an elite. Votes: 0

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something. Votes: 0

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street. Votes: 0

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. Votes: 0

Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite. Votes: 0

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. Votes: 0

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. Votes: 0

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance. Votes: 0

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. Votes: 0

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody." Votes: 0

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English. Votes: 0

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody. Votes: 0

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient. Votes: 0

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite. Votes: 0

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration. Votes: 0

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few. Votes: 0

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. Votes: 0

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect. Votes: 0

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. Votes: 0

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. Votes: 0

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention. Votes: 0

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune. Votes: 0

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth. Votes: 0

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. Votes: 0

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy. Votes: 0

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. Votes: 0

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe Votes: 0

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. Votes: 0

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. Votes: 0

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering. Votes: 0

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves. Votes: 0

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. Votes: 0

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. Votes: 0

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses. Votes: 0

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite. Votes: 0

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. Votes: 0

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. Votes: 0

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. Votes: 0

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. Votes: 0

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. Votes: 0

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. Votes: 0

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite? Votes: 0

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril. Votes: 0

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler. Votes: 0

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. Votes: 0

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. Votes: 0

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down. Votes: 0

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.' Votes: 0

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. Votes: 0

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. Votes: 0

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions." Votes: 0

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate. Votes: 0

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. Votes: 0

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God. Votes: 0

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. Votes: 0

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. Votes: 0

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance." Votes: 0

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists. Votes: 0

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. Votes: 0

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. Votes: 0

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end. Votes: 0

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. Votes: 0

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. Votes: 0

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. Votes: 0

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite Votes: 0

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. Votes: 0

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life. Votes: 0

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. Votes: 0

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. Votes: 0

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. Votes: 0

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. Votes: 0

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school. Votes: 0

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick. Votes: 0

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy. Votes: 0

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? Votes: 0

Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy. Votes: 0

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. Votes: 0

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite. Votes: 0

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. Votes: 0

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. Votes: 0

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. Votes: 0

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. Votes: 0

Digital India' is not an elite concept anymore. We have to use this idea to revolutionize health and education in India. Votes: 0

DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER Votes: 0

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. Votes: 0

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. Votes: 0

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite. Votes: 0

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? Votes: 0

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. Votes: 0

[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family. Votes: 0

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society. Votes: 0

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong. Votes: 0

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. Votes: 0

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. Votes: 0

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete. Votes: 0

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money. Votes: 0

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity. Votes: 0

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people. Votes: 0

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning. Votes: 0

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power. Votes: 0

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values. Votes: 0

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. Votes: 0

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody. Votes: 0

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it. Votes: 0

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world. Votes: 0

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. Votes: 0

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning. Votes: 0

I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions. Votes: 0

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world. Votes: 0

The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful. Votes: 0

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government. Votes: 0

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy. Votes: 0

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords. Votes: 0

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. Votes: 0

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad Votes: 0

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost. Votes: 0

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory. Votes: 0

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives. Votes: 0

Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so I'm very, very happy. Votes: 0

Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them. Votes: 0

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts. Votes: 0

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite. Votes: 0

There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years. Votes: 0

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite. Votes: 0

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge. Votes: 0

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. Votes: 0

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. Votes: 0

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. Votes: 0

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen. Votes: 0

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products. Votes: 0

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. Votes: 0

Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. Votes: 0

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle. Votes: 0

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate. Votes: 0

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. Votes: 0

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite. Votes: 0

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left. Votes: 0

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down Votes: 0

I think this was a change election, as David Axelrod said. It was a primal scream by many who feel that a discredited elite failed them, economically and politically. Votes: 0

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. Votes: 0

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down. Votes: 0

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state. Votes: 0

It is clear from both documentary and archaeological sources that conspicuous display and consumption of wealth was fundamental for an elite male to maintain power and position in society. Votes: 0

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god. Votes: 0

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. Votes: 0

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill. Votes: 0

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum. Votes: 0

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived. Votes: 0

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump, I think, understands it. He has said this is going to be a new Republican Party, a workers' Republican Party, instead of just the elite Republican Party. Votes: 0

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi. Votes: 0

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing. Votes: 0

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. Votes: 0

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. Votes: 0

What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously, enormously, in an enormously important way. Votes: 0

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India. Votes: 0

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference. Votes: 0

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. Votes: 0

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential. Votes: 0

I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite or that I'm too old. I'll use that. Votes: 0

It's becoming obvious to most that mainstream media is nothing but a megaphone for the global elite to present biased news that's designed to align the masses with their agenda. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine. Votes: 0

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them. Votes: 0

Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small elite the same way we view slavery today. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite. Votes: 0

Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. Votes: 0

God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City! Votes: 0

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time. Votes: 0

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. Votes: 0

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots. Votes: 0

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. Votes: 0

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York. Votes: 0

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. Votes: 0

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them. Votes: 0

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small governmental elite? Votes: 0

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians . And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population . But oh, how they try. Votes: 0

The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20 black law students in the entire country met those standards. Votes: 0

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Votes: 0

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy. Votes: 0

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun. Votes: 0

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student. Votes: 0

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth. Votes: 0

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.' Votes: 0

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven? Votes: 0

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman. Votes: 0

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is. Votes: 0

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art. Votes: 0

It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . . Votes: 0

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive. Votes: 0

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite~? Votes: 0

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Votes: 0

I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club. Votes: 0

Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context. Votes: 0

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite? Votes: 0

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. Votes: 0

[...] The goal of Communism and the New World Order always has been the destruction of family. This forces people to get their sense of belonging from the elite-run media, political causes or products. Votes: 0

I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done. Votes: 0

Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans. Votes: 0

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth. Votes: 0

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. Votes: 0

What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent. Votes: 0

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them. Votes: 0

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them. Votes: 0

I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all. Votes: 0

Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent. Votes: 0

Muslims shared many of the deep-seated characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon elite-an intuitive resentment of culture, an amicable contempt for women, a proclivity for riding about on horses, a pleasure in discipline, and a covert homophilia. Votes: 0

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained? Votes: 0

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people. Votes: 0

The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results. Votes: 0

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. Votes: 0

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. Votes: 0

But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's why [Vladimir] Putin's "fifth column" is that powerful in the West. Votes: 0

Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college. Votes: 0

These people"”the employed, the somewhat privileged"”are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls. Votes: 0

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers. Votes: 0

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. Votes: 0

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there. Votes: 0

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up. Votes: 0

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference. Votes: 0