Elite Interests Quotes

When to prevent? When to adapt?" Noting that prevention tends to cost more and favors elites, while adaptation costs less and favors the average person…

Democratically elected leaders, forced to accommodate the real forces that shape their nation-state’s future—capital and the economic and military interests of more-powerful states—do so only to face the ire of their own citizens, who see themselves (perhaps rightly) as the losers of these compromises.]

It was the British who defined religion to divide and rule. That is what created the heat. That is what created the cut. Partition happened because of the rulers, fueled by a few powerful families on both sides who stood to gain. It is the politicians that keep everyone fighting.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.

You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Latin American leaders have been demonized by a combination of their own local media—which is controlled by private, rich families who don’t want to see change in their countries—and also the U. S. media which is surprising considering the distance from the facts.

Both major political parties have long since been seized by the same powerful group of manipulators.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

We must combat the over-riding interest of organizations such as The World Bank, The International Monetary fund … They work in collaboration of the most reactionary elements of Argentina.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people.

The ruling ideas of each age have always been the ideas of the ruling class.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

The problem is never the populist’s imperfect capacity to represent the people’s will; rather, it’s always the institutions that somehow produced the wrong outcomes. So even if they look properly democratic, there must be something going on behind the scenes that allows corrupt elites to continue to betray the people. Conspiracy theories are thus not a curious addition to populist rhetoric; they are rooted in and emerge from the very logic of populism itself.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

The political elite has never told the truth.

The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.