Elites Quotes

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

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.

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

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.

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.

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

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.

I like fish

British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

As you can see, I keep my word, ” I call to the rest of the crowd. “Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.