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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. — Martin Jacques

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it. — Jim Brown

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad — Smedley Butler

I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term. — Robert Reich

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. — David Letterman

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. — Nicola Formichetti

Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. — Shepard Smith

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. — Thomas Sowell

Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them. — Ann Coulter

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. — Adolf Galland

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning. — Ed Belfour

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. — Bill Keller

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. — Hugo Chavez

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be. — Lauren Hutton

Leadership is rarely about what we want, son. I think too few among the Alethi elite realize that fact. — Brandon Sanderson

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. — Kiera Cass

Extreme inequality and financial crisis usually coincide. But the elite who cause it usually come out OK. And they are usually man. — Katrine Marcal

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

I always wondered if they'd change you. — Kiera Cass

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. — Sebastian Thrun

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. — Hugo Chavez

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? — Richard Dawkins

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. — Edward S. Herman

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance. — Tim LaHaye

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. — Todd Gitlin

Jameis had unique competitive temperament," Dilfer said, evoking the name of the star of the 2011 Elite 11, Jameis Winston. "That's a 5. — Bruce Feldman

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite. — Carly Fiorina

It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether. — Kiera Cass

elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle. — Michael Connelly

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. — Petra Kelly

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying. — Kenneth Eade

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts. — Robert Brustein

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration. — Mark Krikorian

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English. — Mamata Banerjee

Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up? — Chloe Neill

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders. — Mikhail Lermontov

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people. — John Ridley

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate. — Amish Tripathi

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? — Desmond Tutu

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. — Maurice Greene

in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society — Francis A. Schaeffer

We will never have the elite smart people on our side. — Rick Santorum

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. — Alvin Ailey

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. — Jacquie Phelan

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street. — Al Dubin

They are a privileged and elite tribe, and the most fucked-up group of kids you could ever imagine. — Kimberly Belle

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. — Tammy Bruce

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left. — Michael Leunig

It has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors. — Chris Hedges

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. — Larry Elder

Everyone has the impulse to be elite. — Alfre Woodard

This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey. — Steve Aylett

The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists. — E.H. Gombrich

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. — Jeff Sharlet

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. — Alana Stewart

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. — Questlove

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
American political elite from the beginning. — Gore Vidal

But he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it — Ronie Kendig

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect. — Jean-Claude Juncker

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God. — Pat Buchanan

The Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite
those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune. — Drew Karpyshyn

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. — Ron Silver

Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy. — Lisi Harrison

But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety, and now the Alethi elite danced with abandon. — Brandon Sanderson

A society that is controlled by an elite minority group who use the population as a food source, will never know civility — Alejandro C. Estrada

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril. — Janet Morris

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. — Sargent Shriver

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. — Julia Leigh

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. — David Frum

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. — Andre Rieu

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money. — Linda McQuaig

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. — Ed Gillespie

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong. — Newt Gingrich

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy. — Bauvard

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler. — Joe Rogan

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. — Thomas Friedman

We are drawn to stories," he says in a soft voice, "and every scar carries one. — Marie Lu

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite? — Julia Quinn

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete. — Dick Fosbury

There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years. — Liang Chow

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick. — Noreena Hertz

Thank you," he whispered. "At least I can know for certain that, for one brief moment of our time together, you and I felt the same thing. — Kiera Cass

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite. — Bobby Orr

Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be. — Elizabeth Kelly

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

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge. — Vikas Swarup

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. — Ben Hecht

"[Those] on fixed incomes are the nation's math elite." from pg.88 of Atomic Lobster. — Tim Dorsey

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful. — Chelsie Shock

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world. — William Halsey

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel