Elizabeth Price Quotes

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

I think this country is genuinely a meritocracy.

Would it be preferable to argue for a fairer system whereby the unremarkable should be considered leadership material? With such an attitude, can we wonder why mediocrity is now a mark of Labour's hierarchy?

Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

I want nothing to do with privilege.