Steven Ernest Sailer Quotes

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

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

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

There seems to be an idea abroad in this land as well as in others, that a certain class of people are for the purpose of producing servants for another class of people, and that this servant-producing class has no right to give their children an education that is calculated to elevate them above the position of their parents. We are not in sympathy with this idea.

You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval of affirmative action.… We have to prove ourselves and we have to work hard doing it.

Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.

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

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.