Elite Quotes

It is notable that almost all the Founding Fathers were first generation, college graduates.

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

Being able to compete against the best, having success against the best, and to be included with the best - that's something I really relished whenever I got on the court.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communication workers, garbagemen and firemen. These people -- the employed, the somewhat privileged -- are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

To win the Premier League proves you are a top team.

They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em.

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

I have always considered myself as a privileged person from a kind of elite among the lucky ones. So I think we should help all those who have not had the luck I have had, to use my fame to help.

I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.