Elitist Quotes

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game.

I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

It isn't brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It's simply elitist.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

We've elected an untested prima donna, zero, zilch, nada experience, and it's coming home to roost, clear for one and all to see, and the guy thinks he's better and smarter than everybody else, is an aristocrat, an elitist, and is hell-bent on getting even with whatever he thinks the grievances of America have been in the past. Barack Obama equals politics of grievance. He has rallied an entire nation against him, and, believe me, it's a larger number of people than you would ever know, because the media of course is not portraying these numbers accurately.

If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me.

With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

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

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

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.

… egotists, exploiters and aristocrats

Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board.

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.