Richard Edelman Quotes

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

Global elites need to recognize that the masses that they spit on, as they try to change their worlds, are immune to their consultations

Davos is where billionaires tell millionairs what middle class people think.

The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

The masses are absolutely being manipulated by those in power.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

We do not believe in the infallibility, nor even in the general goodness of the masses; on the contrary. But we believe even less in the infallibility and goodness of those who seize power and legislate.

The great families have their privileges.

Opinion elites begin to shape a debate.

The masses, the public, is too strict.

Poor men's words have little weight.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.

When you go back and look at the history of anything, it’s always the records of the elite that survive.

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

Our elite has not evolved in 20 years, and the instincts of this elite are not democratic.