#elite

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #black #black community #claimed #community

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#due #elite #genius #hierarchy #human

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

#because #constitute #elite #fascinate #good

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#communication #define #elite #formula #may

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#israelites #misfortune #proportion #russia #same

Everyone has the impulse to be elite. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#everyone #impulse

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