Horace Greeley Quotes

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Private interests often keep up Customs and Privileges, when the reasons of them are ceased

... this is a grievance society and that if you want to get into its leading edge you pretty well have to be a victim.

To detail the real evils of aristocracy, they must be seen in Europe.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

Like power in any shape, a full stomach always holds a dose of insolence, and this expresses itself first of all in the well-fed lecturing the starving.

The Scottish nobility has a feckless arrogant conceit of their greatness and power.

I know we have an illegitimate, swaggering, bastard, scrub aristocracy which assumes to know a great deal, but which, when the flowing veil of pretension is torn off, is seen to posses neither talent nor information on which one can rear a useful superstructure.

Mrs. Hoover has offered to the South and to the nation an arrogant insult yesterday.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.