Elvis Mitchell Quotes

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

Language does not make one an elite.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

I hate uneducated people having power …

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn't mean they were better than us.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'

I went home every night wondering how to get in the Burnley team. It was, 'You've been brought up nicely, had everything handed to you.' Is that what people think just because I went to private school and played instruments?