Elitist Quotes
Elitist Quote of the day
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.
You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.
When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.
Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.
You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.
There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.
I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.
Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.
Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.
