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

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent. — Van Wyck Brooks

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

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat. — Esther M. Friesner

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 — Philip Zaleski

They loved their country largely because they controlled it. — Tom Clancy

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts. — Michael Harris

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

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. — Bell Hooks

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

...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery. — Steven Moore

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them. — D.E. Navarro

What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ... — John Geddes

[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest. — Alfred Russel Wallace

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty. — Giorgio Armani

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. — Glenn Greenwald

Don't say anything against indies. They're very sensitive. One hint of elitism and they'll be organizing a twitcott. — Josh Lanyon

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity. — Sydney J. Harris

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird. — Theo Hutchcraft

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. — Quentin Tarantino

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. — Tina Brown

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. — Florence King

Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise — Jonny Oates

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion. — Marty Rubin

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

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist. — Gary Hopkins

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects. — Greg Carlson

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

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul. — Andrew O'Hagan

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like. — George F. Will

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. — Dan Rather

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

I love pop culture
the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. — Haruki Murakami

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. — David Zinczenko

He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was. — David Halberstam