Elites Quotes - Page 25

• Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

  Shannon Miller

  Attitude, Gymnastics, Being Positive

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• Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Creativity, Study, Distraction

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• Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Political, Economics

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Money, Community, Decision

  Noam Chomsky (1990). “On Power and Ideology”, p.6, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously, enormously, in an enormously important way.

  Henry Giroux

  Important, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.

  Charles Woodson

  Mean, Winning, Games

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• We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Needs, Said

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What is interesting to me, as I travel, is that exactly the same agenda is being implemented in every country I travel to. Because people from different countries don't talk to each other and the international media are being used to bring about the changes desired by the global elite, nobody realizes this.

  David Icke

  Country, Media, People

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• When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

  Steve Young

  Athlete, Nfl, Special

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• The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

  Tom Petty

  Men, Common, Realms

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

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• I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

  Eve Ensler

  Distance, Believe, Tasks

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

  Margaret Halsey

  Giving Up, Self, Alcohol

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• Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

  Anita Roddick

  Technology, Economic Globalization, Benefits

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Nwo, People

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• In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

  Randall Kennedy

  White, Wife, Would Be

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• What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.

  Jack Zipes

  Religious, Children, Educational

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• We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Teaching, Athlete, Healthy

  "Dominique Moceanu Talks Body Image In Gymnastics, Says Coaches Can ‘Scar For Life’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Cost, Maintaining

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• I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Pain, Thinking, Anxiety

  "Nouriel Roubini Walks Us Through A Typical Day In His Life" by Matthew Boesler, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012,.

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• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  Jackson Katz

  Believe, Athlete, Men

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• Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Unions, Oppression, Antagonism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Fall, Heart

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• What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Bourgeoisie, Social

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Power, Circles

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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