Top 293 Elites Quotes & Sayings

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.

There's a lot more blue-collar workers out there than the so-called elites.

The skepticism that has grown up about elites is totally justified. Since 2008, no one has gone to jail on Wall Street for the crash and elites have not been able to fix the problem, right? We haven't managed to fix post manufacturing job growth. We haven't fixed the issues to do with immigration.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.

If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that their economic model is broken.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.

There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief that elites have access to superior information and their interests are interconnected with those of the broader public.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

Only the elites despise earning money.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

Media elites, particularly those on the Left, love to hate the pumpkin spice latte.

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

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.

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.

If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.

Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks.

I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there are visionary elites.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

I volunteered to join Mr. Trump's campaign because he is a champion of working families, not Washington-Wall Street elites.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.