Elites, Elitists, Elitism Quotes

Today’s Democratic Party is entirely dedicated to the proposition that all Americans should be told how to live.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The truth is always in the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because as a rule the minority is made up of those who actually have an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed of that crowd which has no opinion — and which therefore the next moment (when it becomes clear that the minority is the stronger) adopts the latter's opinion, which now is in the majority, i. e. becomes rubbish by having the whole retinue and numerousness on its side, while the truth is again in a new minority.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

The knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

When I hear anyone talk of Culture, I reach for my revolver.

I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard University.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

I am obliged to confess that I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or knowledge or generosity or even the affability of the Harvard faculty: but because I greatly fear intellectual arrogance, and that is a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise.

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.