#elitist

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. ↗

— Rick Perry

#elitist #even #god #guns #happily

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#elite #elitism #elitist #voter #voting

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. ↗

— David Ives

#discriminatory #elitist #lists #print #small

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

— Tom Clancy

#i #loser #me #show #you

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#always #classical #disagree #elitist #i

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#collective #elitist #i #person

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#challenge #cues #elitist #got #huge

Our education system is today run by left-wing elitists who believe the US is too big, too arrogant, and must be reigned-in... Real sad. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#big #education-system-elitist #sad #education

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#elite #elitism #elitist #meritocracy #politics