Elite Class Quotes

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

All the power of the government will be directed towards the Rockefeller Trust.

Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

The Iron Law of Oligarchy: every field of human endeavor, every kind of organization, will always be led by a relatively small elite.

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

Class warfare has never created a job.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nice words but he's really all about looking out for his rich and powerful friends, just like the Conservatives.

There shall not be intermarriage between plebeians and patricians

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

Fearing the weakness of democracy, men have always sought safety in technocrats. But ... [we] have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down before the divine right of experts.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.