#elite

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. ↗

— Danny Glover

#always #been #concept #country #day

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#did #elite #group #i #know

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#athletes #capable #elite #handful #physically

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#advertise #anybody #elite #forces #go

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#agencies #aid #attitudes #come #dependency

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#art world #both #cater #elite #masses

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. ↗

— Edward S. Herman

#business community #community #consent #domestic #easy

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#been #cultural #down-home #elite #girl

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#elite #face #find #live #racism

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists