#Elitism Quotes

“When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.”

“I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.”

“Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.”

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

“Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.”

“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.”

“Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.”

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”

“Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.”

“Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.”

“The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.”