Quotes about Elite Opinion

Ann Coulter

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

Max Azria

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

Mike McCurry

Opinion elites begin to shape a debate.

Roger L'Estrange

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Mark Hertsgaard

Contrary to right-wing mythology, the press was not an institution dominated by leftists but a creature of the very richest of the rich and mightiest of the mighty in American society.... While the press shaped mass opinion, it reflected elite opinion.

Christopher Hitchens

Most of Washington punditry […] is private letters, written to other pundits, appearing in public space.

Ted Cruz

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, address the few; in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few…. In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.

1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth. This non democratic nature of science causes politicians in a democracy difficulty in many situations. In Southern communities where there are a high percentage of Fundamentalist Christians over 60 percent of the citizens are convinced that The Theory of Evolution is not only in error but is a negative force in society and should not be taught in schools. Yet virtually all the biological scientists—a small minority of the population tell the politicians the contrary, and that Evolution is one of the most important aspects of their science. Many politicians have trouble coping with this type of problem—go with the few or the many.

Jack Levine

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Michael J. Knowles

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

Mark Krikorian

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Claud Cockburn

We never heard a politician so desperate not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.

Obama was very much a centrist although he attracted harsh attacks of both extreme left and extreme right. Conservatives thought that he was much to socialistic and liberal, and liberals thought that he was under the thumb of the establishment.

Jean-Francois Revel

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

John Ralston Saul

It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

Elite Opinion Quotes