elitism

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

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

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.""You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children.""Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?""What are you talking about?""Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open." Foyle laughed savagely. "I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about

After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate & renege on, time & time & time again. More humane, surely & more honest, just to knock the savages on the head & get it over with?

A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that people say and think, it becomes rather difficult to remember the good and noble arguments for everyone to be able to participate and decide.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual lineage went back to such bitter establishment opponents of Populism as the social Darwinists Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. The battle between "the oppressed and their oppressors," as one People's Party publication had termed it in 1892, was redefined in his milieu: "the working masses who produce" became businessmen, and "the favored parasites who prey and fatten on the toil of others" became those who gained anything from government without paying proportional income taxes. "The mighty struggle" became one to hamstring the people who refused to stop making claims on government.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.