Elites Quotations

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

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

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

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Language does not make one an elite.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of ""experts"" become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some ""they"" is manipulating ""us,"" using, among other dark arts, advertising.

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.