Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

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.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

There's no snobbery in me.

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.

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

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

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.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

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

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.