Ben Stein Quotes

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

The House of Commons is full of fat and pompous plutocrats…Public schools are cradles of sickening snobbery.

...a blue blood, a snob

I am offended by people who feel that they're entitled to something just because of their last name.

The Gandhi family is a pampered lot. They have only dealt with people at their beck and call.

The right-wing conservatives are so entitled in their snobbery that no one is ever good enough for them, so the rest of us, especially moderates, must suffer.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.