Elitist Quotes

“Our education system is today run by left-wing elitists who believe the US is too big, too arrogant, and must be reigned-in... Real sad.”

“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reader, who should never be asked to do anything that might lead to a pulled muscle. (What a relief to be told there's no need to bother with a book that might seem thorny, or abstract, or unusual.) The elitists are the ones who become angry when it is suggested to them that a book with low sales might actually deserve a prize (...) and readers were assured that the low sales figures for some of the titles could only mean that the books had failed our culture's single meaningful literary test.”

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

“Do they send all of you jaguars through some elitist asshole training course?”

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

“Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.”

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

“Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.”

“Satanism is developing two circles, an elitist group which I always intended my church to be, and the faddists who are becoming Satanists because it’s the thing to do.”