Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

...a blue blood, a snob

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I don't want to be elitist.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Language does not make one an elite.

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

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.