#elite

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. ↗

— Susan George

#america #been #crises #during #elite

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. ↗

— David Letterman

#changing #democratic #doing #elite #guard

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#academic #elite #feminist #men #originating

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#called #civility #demagoguery #elites #labels

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#easy #elite #get #good #good actors

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#bowlers #cultural #elite #people #vote

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#cancer #club #elite #gave #having