Patricia O'Toole Quotes

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Chile is still at the whim of powerful, traditional elites who sit as a higher societal authority than the elected government.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

In British tradition, the American elite expected the lower classes to fight their wars.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

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

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

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

The history handed down to us is what white men did in the daytime.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

For thousands of years, the natural tendency of elites everywhere has been to monopolize power rather than restrain it.

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.

Ultimately the views of the ruling class become embodied in the law.

Of the 1 Percent. By the 1 Percent. For the 1 Percent.

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

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and creating for them a false sense of identification—denying real class differences wherever possible.

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