Elites Quotes

Generally speaking, the elite media believe that the majority in this country -- white Christian Americans -- are prone to oppressing the minority. The elites rightfully point to the civil rights struggle as an example of how the majority can hurt a minority until the forces of reason stepped in.

(on The Devils (1971)) It vividly shows a side of the church that was never scrutinized attentively or even less accepted. The film shows that the monarchy can be weak, that the church can be corrupt, that society can admit that it has a lot to learn. I think these kinds of things were hidden from audiences for a long time. The masses go to the movies, not the intellectual elites.

America`s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they`re privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

(Cunningham noted the same problem:) The Ivy League elites and East Coast editorial writers, ... simply refuse to believe that to most Americans-most of whom don`t have over-priced degrees-faith, family and traditional values are far more important than making friends with France or preserving a deeply flawed government pension program.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have`s and Have-more`s. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.