79 Quotes About Elitism

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

Today’s Big Tech barons have benefited from lax antitrust enforcement and outdated antitrust laws, from cozy relationships with supposed regulators, and from special protections in the law. All this must end.

In my own not-all-that-humble opinion, duping the hicks is a degree or two worse than condescending to them.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.